Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ehrlichman seemed to rely throughout on the accepted notion that in some situations the needs of the country must take precedence over individual liberties. In law, however, the new claim to a "right to burgle" rested insecurely on the vagaries of an extremely soft, unresolved constitutional issue: the extent of the President's inherent authority to protect the national security...
...sees it, is to bring all the President's men before the public, as well as the committee, and let anybody interested see them and hear them. He is resolute in his belief that there is something magic about truth. The folks after a while get some notion of who is lying and who is not. That emerges most often in small natural increments, not in blinding flashes of acrimony. The witnesses kind of do it themselves...
...week Writers Guild of America strike, settled six weeks ago, reduced both the quantity and quality of new summer-replacement shows. With fresh scripts unavailable, CBS opted out of the season altogether; ABC and NBC scrimped up four and two new entries respectively. Most of them reinforce the notion that summer is the time to enjoy the great outdoors. A sampling...
...concerned as Hemingway was with "a good death," but he is contemporary in knowing that there is no such thing. "There are no tremendous deaths any more. The pope, the president, the commissar all come to it like cigarette butts dropped to the sidewalk." Still, he clings to a notion of a powerful grace born of desperation, and goes off to a rendezvous with Dance where they both know the fish will be running...
...made NPHS the scourge of Philadelphia and Delaware so much as it was the inspired comradery. In retrospect, talent probably had a lot more to do with it, but at the time, the belief in the transcendent spirit of the team over a nine-game season was a comfortable notion...