Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them. They would probably be joined by Israeli technicians on the east side and Egyptian technicians on the west side; all would man electronic reconnaissance and surveillance gear. The Ford Administration, which would prefer that U.N. forces take on the potentially dangerous task, is decidedly cool to the notion of such American involvement. But Israel has insisted and may well get its way. "An attack through U.N. lines does not carry the symbolic gravity that an attack through American stations would," observes an Israeli official. "With Americans between the two armies, each side would hesitate to attack, and the American...
...Play It Again, Sam. Allen was one of them. "If I only knew where my damn analyst was," he wailed. "Where do they go every August?" The answer, of course, is that they go on vacation. Some psychiatrists say they choose August because Freud did, though others debunk that notion as too Freudian. "An August vacation," explains Dr. William Frosch, a Manhattan psychiatrist, "is built into your training from the start. Your analyst took August and so you start doing so yourself...
...inalienable right, few Americans have stayed entirely in their own backyards. Many who usually escape for a month in summer have taken only two weeks this year and plan to get away again next winter. A pair of New Yorkers, for example, are toying with the notion of an off-season $998-per-person package holiday in Russia, which 5,057 Americans visited in the first four months of this year-an increase of 42% over the same period last year. In the spirit of Apollo-Soyuz, the New Yorkers figure, Brezhnev may even invite them to a champagne lunch...
...notion of France undone by its own benevolence is a grand comic conceit. But Raspail is not joking. A swash buckling world traveler and a columnist for France's moderately conservative Le Figaro, he prefaces his book by insisting that it is "no wild-eyed dream," then drives his argument home with a trip hammer. With nary a dissenting voice, the seagoing Indians are variously described as "Ganges scum," "starving bastards," a "stinking mob" and a "filthy mess." The only praise in the novel goes to some doomed white hunters who hap pily kill unarmed Indians. Whatever Raspail...
While she does her best to understand why "the young" act as they do, she never quite rids herself of the sense that dropping out is somehow reprehensible. She never reconciles herself to the notion that perhaps alternative lifestyles offer something worthwhile. Each of her characters ends in failure--the drop-out goes off to California, the pothead moves to an apartment with only dope as her objective, the sexual revolutionist will never acheive a normal heterosexual relationship, the communard leaves his commune in disgust at the problems he finds within it to apply to law school as a final...