Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outside world, the notion that the Greek military forces had overthrown Papadopoulos seemed at first glance to be a contradiction in terms...
...statement itself was prompted by a notion held by our alumni that athletic talent was a liability [in the selection process]." David said. "That's not the case...
...scale of such human intelligence, but something very different: it expresses the relationship between a so-called "mental age" and the chronological age of a child in development (as a ratio, hence the name "intelligence quotient"). The technique was conceived and designed to test children, not adults. The notion that such a ratio makes for comparison among adults was and is ridiculous. This is clear especially from looking at the capacities of exceptionally intelligent adults: comparing the I.Q.'s of, say, Einstein, Judge Brandeis and the theologian Paul Tillich says nothing at all about the comparative capacities for judgment, good...
...Greek tragedies. But then splinterbug Graham played two shows a day on the Phantasia circuit in the early twenties. Now on a lecture/concert tour, Graham also had some tart things to say about the Metropolitan Opera's former general manager Sir Rudolf Bing. "He had a misconceived notion of the purpose of dance," said Graham, who maintains that every woman has a touch of Medea and Clytemnestra in her. "He thought of it as fluffy, a superficial sort of thing to permit men to ogle pretty girls...
...debates. The monthly magazine, now four years old, evolved from the two editors' decade-long collaboration on 18 guidebooks to France and beyond. "G. and M." as some call the Paris-based magazine, exerts influence far beyond its 145,000 circulation. Its editors are currently dashing the chauvinistic notion that to be gustatorily gifted is to be French. They regularly grade domestic Chinese, Indian, Indonesian and Vietnamese food...