Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal" with the proposal for "just three slogans and a march" submitted by YSA members and NSCAR coordinators Maceo Dixon and Paul Mailhot and coordinators Ray Sherbil of BU and Marcia Coodling of Northeastern U., and submitted his own proposal with Mr. Sherbil. Mr. Harper does not accept the notion forwarded by a member of the YSA national executive board (council or whatever) that the "NAACP has finally decided to do something concrete and call for this (May 17) action." Must one march over the concrete to do something "concrete"? Additionally, two national organizations, one a Marxist-Leninist group...
About Heroes. One fiction that the show destroys is the lingering idea that revolutions in politics produce revolutionary art styles. The notion that the events of 1789 filled the Salon with blood, grapeshot and equality is a myth. As the catalogue reminds us, "It is generally agreed that the Revolution did not seriously affect the development of French painting." Thus when it came, the successful portraitists-most of whom, like the gifted Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, were women-simply turned from painting the court to recording the features of eminences like Robespierre and Talleyrand...
...this musical runs long enough to generate word of mouth, the word is likely to be "blah." Not that Goodtime Charley is malignant; it is merely inane. It is not clear how the notion entered the producers' heads that the saga of Joan of Arc raising sword and soldiers to have the Dauphin crowned King of France (while she ultimately dies at the stake) had the makings of a musical comedy. At that crazed moment, they should have consulted an exorcist...
...Augustine some 1,600 years ago. Man, preached Pelagius, is untainted by original sin and is thus perfectible through his own efforts. The cynical saint disagreed and ran Pelagius out of Rome. But this humane heretic's views now dominate society, Burgess suggests, through the delusive notion that men are essentially creatures of their environment whose actions must be controlled by benign behaviorists. Disaster, says Burgess. No original sin, no evil. No evil, no moral choice. No moral choice and human freedom becomes meaningless, man becomes a machine...
...graduate and retire to a gate keeper's cottage. Even such sarcastic complacency does not sit well with Fisher and after a brief pause his large right hand is combing the air vigorously and he is erasing the pretty image of the gate-keeper's cottage and the sedentary notion of retirement. Fisher is good at resisting such facile conclusions or categorizations. When he entered Harvard Law School in 1948, he directed the registrar not to inform him of his grades, so as to "demote their importance." He is so adept at demoting the importance of such figures that...