Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no reason to expect it, but a remarkable scene occurs somewhere in the middle of this befogged exercise. An old woman named Anne Ives plays the mother of a murdered man who has been reincarnated inside Michael Sarrazin. Now Sarrazin himself has some doubts about this nagging notion of double identity. It afflicts him, for one thing, with an annoying case of déjà vu, which recurs like a migraine. Quite understandably, he would prefer not to be lieve that he is a gentleman who distressed a great many young ladies some decades ago. There...
...peasants could have saved the monarchy if only they had been politically aware," Pipes said, "but they have no notion of the state or the nation. They know only the joint family, the village, and the Orthodox community." Pipe's condescension towards the peasants makes this heavily-documented section one of the most interesting and infuriating in the book. And the condescending tone becomes mixed with hatred at the entrance of what Pipes finds the most disappointing group of all: the radical intelligentsia...
...were to have two decades later, tried to revolutionize the state. According to Pipes, police repression was inevitable from the moment the radicals tried to extricate themselves from the entire web at once. "If you fight for everything, you get nothing," Pipes said recently. "I subscribe to the Burkean notion of fighting for specific rights and privileges. This creates an element of liberty...
...roles, Baryshnikov fairly radiates daring. It has been suggested that he must believe in Laurence Olivier's dictum that nothing is really interesting onstage unless the performer is risking sudden death. It is a notion that amuses him: "It is not so important that the actor or dancer feel he is risking death as it is that the audience should feel he is." Much more important to Baryshnikov is the insistence that "the essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure." In that sentence, one feels, he comes closer to the heart of his appeal than...
...that keeps spreading continually into more countries and industries. The practice, known in German as Mitbestimmung (literally, having a voice in), took root shortly after World War II in West Germany, where coal miners and steel workers began sitting alongside bosses on industry supervisory boards. In recent years, the notion of giving workers a greater say in the companies that hire them has gained vast new momentum; in one form or another, it is popping up all over the Continent...