Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the 1942 film Bataan, from Bob Hope movies and American Legion war games of the McCarthy epoch. These imply that motion pictures are instruments of behavioral conditioning: we fought the Viet Nam War because the screen trained us to hate the Red Menace and the Yellow Peril. The notion that films so easily mold an audience trivializes evil...
...part, Sonny bridles at the notion that he was the only ambitious member of the marriage. Early on, he recalls, they bought a house in Encino to which they both took an instant loathing. A little later, when they were down and out, he told her that if things did not start looking up they might have to retreat to that house. "Cher said, 'I'll never go back to that house.' I got the message. She was telling me, 'Make it for us; I'm not going backward.' That...
...this mountain of cultural prejudice, Janet Barkas has planted The Vegetable Passion, a monomaniacal history of herbivores from Neanderthal man to the Hare Krishna people. Between her gargoyle book ends, this vegetarian convert presents a series of case histories. Each serves to dispel the notion that vegetable dieters are as alike as peas in a pod. Here is the early Christian theologian-and heretic-Origen, who castrated himself, and the American Benjamin Franklin, who did not. Here is Pythagoras, who denounced beans, and Horace Greeley, who renounced coffee. Here are the diverse saints and satans of human history: Gandhi...
...STORY WICKER tells of America's prisons adds yet another sorry dimension to the Attica tragedy. The Quakers in the late 1700s had the notion that offenders should be locked alone in cells, day and night, so that, in such awful solitude, they would have nothing to do but ponder their acts, repent and reform. By 1825, New York had begun an entire penal system that combined individual cells and total silence with floggings, hard labor in fields and quarries, undeviating routine, and subsistence level food and shelter. As the first warden of Sing Sing had said, "Reformation...
Whitla dismisses the notion that many women are actually discontented with their status in the Houses, a situation caused by sex ratios heavily weighted toward men, which too often makes women seem not human but merely representatives of sex. "Our survey [the Whitla-Pinck Report] showed less complaints about ratios than one would expect. In Eliot, women are pretty happy. Maybe the type of women who want to live in Eliot House like the ratios as they...