Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lobbyist for peace who is persuaded to abandon his political pursuits in the outside world and become the Grand Kleagle of Shangri-La. There he will receive the victims of international holocaust with warmth and tolerance. That the world will be consumed by greed and violence seems an odd notion for such a soggy fantasy to be advancing; that the solution to the problem is, forget it, fix it later, is not. What does it matter if the world blows up, after all, if we have the happy valley, Methuselah-like longevity, and Burt Bacharach and the Reader...
...copyist reports: "Byron will delude himself . . . He will each time believe that it is over. That he is free." Later the copyist says: "Soon to end . . . The cast is their duet now . . . Each knows the other if forever now and both are frightened awed terrified by all that notion contains...
...winter of 1951, Mary Downey waved goodbye to her eldest son John at a small Connecticut train station. She had only a vague notion of the job he was going to take in Japan -it had something to do with the Korean War. "A shudder went through me then," she recalled, "and I have always felt it to be a premonition of the horrible thing that was to happen to Jack...
...Sydney lawyer who later became a Supreme Court Justice in New South Wales. They met at a university party when, as Margaret puts it, their eyes found each other across the heads of their smaller companions. Margaret has been a surprise to Australians, who still generally accept the notion that women should not always be seen, let alone heard. Shortly after her husband's election, Margaret told interviewers that she favored wages for housewives, was not opposed to couples living together outside marriage, and thought marijuana might as well be legalized if it is indeed medically harmless...
...beginning of work on the Ring Cycle. Such activities imply a mysterious will and energy that cries out for interpretive speculation; but this would interfere with Visconti's simple view of Ludwig as a moony homosexual victim of his era's political and intellectual climate, a notion he establishes in the film's first moments and never bothers to develop further. Nor does he do much but dawdle over Ludwig's passion for his cousin Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (Romy Schneider...