Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...20th century revival of Baroque music came about, says Harpsichordist Igor Kipnis, "for all the wrong reasons." One of the most wrong was the notion that the Baroque was a perfect antidote for the excesses of 19th century romanticism. Performers played the reborn works of the 17th and early 18th centuries in an unemotional, almost mechanical fashion. The sound seemed orderly and neatly stitched: "Sewing machine music in other words," says Kipnis. If the Baroque revival continues today with greater force than ever, the reason is that Kipnis, 44, and others like him have finally proved that the Baroque contains...
...YEAR-ENDING-IN-5 CYCLE. A new notion just beginning to circulate on the Street, this theory is based on a historical observation that years ending in the number 5 have almost always been "upward trending"-that is, years in which the Dow closed in December well up from the low reached earlier in the year. The leading proponent of this cycle, Ralph Acampora, technical analyst at Manhattan's Harris, Upham & Co., believes that the 1975 trading low will be about 500 and the trading high, by year's end, will be around...
...President, Johnson totally dominated the vice presidency of Hubert Humphrey. Sharing authority, or even listening to Humphrey, was not Johnson's notion of how things were supposed to work. Once he suggested that all Humphrey had to do was sit in his office and wait for orders, needing only a woman to answer the phone and a cedar pencil with an eraser...
Your Essay on oil-country investments in the U.S. [Dec. 16] seems a bit naive. You suggested that substantial OPEC investments in the U.S. would result in those countries taking a greater interest in our economic welfare and stability. Taken a bit further, that notion could provide an ingenious idea for a real-life Bicentennial celebration: after 200 years, return the U.S. to colonial status. The idea is not altogether impractical, but will the people like...
More subtly, the notion of meritocracy (the idea that a social hierarchy based on supposedly objective qualities is natural) ideologically supports a racist status quo. The ethos of professionalism, while pretending to esteem scholastic excellence, in fact promotes racist ideas, implicit as well as explicit, under the guise of value-free research...