Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Persistent complaints and suggestions about the N.B.A. range from the publishers' charge that the awards do not sell books to the preposterous notion that the official ceremonies should resemble the Academy Awards, with the myrmidons of show biz whooping things up on network TV. But the N.B.A. lists of nominees and winners over the past 26 years could serve as a remarkably concise index to the quality of postwar American literature and the broad concerns of American life...
...settlement--what he feels should be Israel's view--is withdrawal to the pre-1967 war boundaries, with modifications in Jerusalem, in return for recognition and security guarantees. He suggests that a step-by-step approach is possible only within the contest of a larger settlement, and offers his notion of possible guarantees: "For a long period both sides will have to be militarily separated. The aim ought to be the stationing in the Sinai, at Sharmel-Sheikh, in the Golan Heights, and in those portions of the Golan Heights, that are geographically closest to the Mediterranean, of international peace...
...interesting and provocative points in the entire plan concern the Palestinians. Hoffmann calls for self-determination for Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza, and says that Israel should be prepared to negotiate withdrawal from the West Bank with the PLO and thereby obtain de facto recognition. His notion, though somewhat ambiguous in the article, is for a Palestinian state on the West Bank, perhaps in Gaza. Thus he wants Israel to relinquish territory to the PLO for the creation of a Palestinian State, but does not demand that such a state, at the outset, recognize Israel...
...undercover agents, including at least one curvaceous woman, gathered information on the sexual and drinking habits of 30 public figures in the Miami area. There are morning-after doubts that the CIA'S Herculean effort to raise a sunken Soviet submarine could have produced much valuable intelligence. The notion grows that it might have been a $350 million project for men still playing James Bond...
...THOSE WHO do not worship at the same altar as Lipset, his faith, and the analysis it spawned, is frustrating at best. His vision of the independent scholar, committed to a self-defined notion of excellence, is a paper-thin one. The ability of the scholar to remain aloof from the rest of society is ultimately dependent on the good will of those who obligingly suffer the scholar's peculiar ways. The rules of American society allow the academic elite its measure of independence because scholars have generally aligned with the political and economic elite. Lipset himself points out that...