Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fails to explain how it altered American life. No one yet has seriously examined the effects of the automobile and automotive philosophy on American life: the rendering of culturally unique areas into drab everytowns; the massive postwar suburbanization and its neurosis-inspiring effect on the American character; the twisted notion of independence which comes from being able to travel wherever and whenever one wants, as all destinations become the same; the commodity fetishism and emotional confusion which auto ads have promoted. If she wanted Paradise Lost to be more than another industrial history book, Rothschild should have addressed these kinds...
Underneath this inelegant collection of cinematic scraps is a pretty fair notion for a thriller: how the smooth, ambitious organizer of a small cell of industrial and political informers programs each of the members to kill one another. The members take information from various fields of specialization and pass it along to a clever control, who uses it in turn to blackmail and barter for positions of power. He wants to liquidate them to consolidate his power and go on to bigger plots. His plan is carried out almost according to the letter, with just one hitch, stashed right...
...notion that developed agricultural nations with excess production potential can buffer the hungry and increasingly populous nations through donations of food grains on an ever increasing scale has finite limitations. Already there is some evidence that the people of developed nations cannot indefinitely accept the progressively higher taxes and reduced living standards implicit in continuing large-scale and growing foreign...
...first year students who entered the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences this fall, 11--or 2 per cent--are black. This figure constitutes a neglible rise in minority enrollment at the graduate school, and lends credence to the notion that its admission policy is still racist. Furthermore, the small number of blacks demonstrates Harvard administrators' flippant attitudes toward their all-too-modest affirmative action plan approved by HEW about one year...
This book is a survival manual, but not one like the usual keep-your-doors-locked-avoid-dark-places one. In the first place, it tries to dispel the notion that rapists are necessarily sick and crazy people lurking in the shadows. In fact, a study done at the University of Chicago, and quoted in the book, shows that 97 per cent of all convicted rapists could not be distinguished from other men through psychological tests. Rape is the province of every man, and "little rapes" are performed on women every moment...