Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Times said Mark, the co-author of a well-known book on psychosurgery called Violence and the Brain, "has done more than anyone else to popularize the notion that psychosurgery might work...
...trial seemed like an unwritten epilogue to A Clockwork Orange. The 35-year-old man in the witness box could resemble an aged Alex, back in the public spotlight after a few years hidden from scrutiny. But somehow, the romanticized notion of brain transformation that Kubrick served up on the screen and Burgess depicted--to a lesser extent--in his novel seemed far away from the austere chambers of the Wayne County courtroom...
...notion of infinity was conceived, as was the zero, by the Eastern mind. Yet it seems a peculiarly Western need to determine the indeterminable. Scottish Essayist Thomas Carlyle once noted that man must "always worship something−always see the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite." At the moment, the something worshiped is science, and the something finite is quasar OH471, the blaze marking the edge of the universe. But before the poetic notion of infinity is crushed between the calipers of science, it is best to remember that quasars were discovered only a decade ago. More probably, what astronomers...
Still, most societies contain more-or-less serious film buffs paying at least lip service to the notion of "quality" films. The near-universal explanation of the encroachment of commercialism is exemplified by Quincy Cinema's dilemma. "It sort of galls me to be showing spaghetti westerns," says Wooley. "It's not good cinema; you can see them anywhere. But otherwise we'd lose our shirts...
Some societies, especially the Graduate Schools' organizations, espouse no cause other than entertainment. A few societies are yet another outlet for House Committee members' organizational drives-- "a communal activity" as a Winthrop House member put it. But Martha Miller is skeptical of the notion. "How much House camaraderie is there watching a movie?" she asks...