Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week. Not in person, of course. Their surrogate was J. Richardson Dilworth, 58, the family's urbane, understated senior financial adviser. Responding to demands of committee Democrats that he reveal the Rockefellers' total stock holdings, Dilworth used five charts crammed with statistics to try to dispel the notion that the family exercises inordinate behind-the-scenes power. Not only could Rocky's critics not dispute Dilworth's bewildering rush of figures, at times they could hardly keep up with them. "There is no grand design or overall pattern," Dilworth assured the committee. "The family members...
Schumann-Heink or Frank Sinatra. Alsop, 64, was quick to dispel any such notion. Said Joe: "I'm engaged in writing a kind of summing-up series of columns, trying to compress 40-odd years in a few thousand words before I get the hell out." "Personally, I like sex, and I don't care what a man thinks of me as long as I get what I want from him -which is usually sex." Actress Valerie Perrine's candor, revealed in an interview with New York Times Reporter Judy Klemesrud, may not attract many serious suitors...
...notion that he is tragically flawed -which the warmly colored historical sections are designed in part to reinforce through contrast-is essential to understanding him. In the context of what is, after all, a gangster picture, that is a tall and slightly pretentious order...
...took some hard-working students, banded into the Carpenter Center Students' Association last Fall, to organize the display of student art appearing in the center this week. Maybe some notion of the worth these students attach to the art they create as well as to the art they study will prick their faculty and administrators in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies; perhaps more than two teachers will lend active support to the next show...
Though Chancellor Schmidt cautiously endorsed Brandt's notion, many Europeans believed that it would mean the dismantling of the Common Market, with Britain and Italy cast adrift. "One can say that the main reason Italy is still democratic and not fascistic is that it is tied to the rest of Europe," says Rome University Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti. "If Italy is cut loose, it will truly become a disaster." Brandt's proposal, adds an American diplomat, would mean "the breakup of the Community on the installment plan...