Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Robert McLaughlin, 65, playwright, short-story writer, novelist (The Walls of Heaven, The Notion of Sin), former McCall 's managing editor (1938-43) and a deft, wryly humorous TIME writer for more than two decades (1948-69); of cirrhosis of the liver; in Miami...
MENDELSOHN believes that his social activism and his concern for the social responsibility of science emerged independently, but his views of contemporary science carry some of his political themes. He sees an urgent need for a broader base of scientific and technological understanding and a breakdown of the notion that there is mystery to science. "I think we are in the middle of a very significant change in the way science relates to society. It has become so relevant--relevant to the very life and death of all people," he warns. Just as wider education changed the complexion of science...
...notion of a new constitutional convention is an intriguing one. After 200 years, why not redraft the charter? These who wrote the first document were not gods, but men. They could not forsee the course that the country would take and they did not expect the republic to produce men like Nixon. From our new perspective, we might write a constitution more conducive to republicanism in the last half of the twentieth century...
...could easily involve the great powers themselves in war. Supplying Israel with weaponry in measured response to Russian resupply of the Arabs may be an essential interim step to ensure Israel's survival, but it is not in the American interest to underwrite blindly Israel's own notion of sufficient victory or readiness to settle. The latent dangers in protracted fighting would quickly become evident to Americans if the Israelis at some point were to say that they are not only short of Phantoms but of trained pilots to man them. Would the U.S. then provide "volunteers...
Just as physical limitations cannot explain all of American social history, neither can the simple notion of the profit motive. But at least the theory of the profit motive recognizes that certain people in America were in a position to make clear decisions about the direction American society was to take and that these people were responsible for American society's eventual course. Boorstin's failure as an historian is his failure to make that recognition a central part of his understanding of history...