Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ACCEPT THE NEW Advocate on its own terms is to give everything away from the start. Simply to argue about the term "feminine sensibility"--which is the issue's title and theme--is to admit that the notion might be useful and important. But this collection doesn't even offer us any good reasons to argue about...
...just "Writing by Women?" The title "Feminine Sensibility" and the question of whether to use it are fronts for a narrow notion of feminism, veiled in vague generalities. The introduction may claim that the magazine is not an attempt "to celebrate, expose, or reject this sensibility." "...We wish to consider and then to test the term." But what is the standard for the test? Ther term does little more, in fact, than to gather the pieces of writing included here under its flimsy and apologetic aegis...
...average informed American views Europe as a wealthy, technologically advanced, comfortable and somewhat expensive society that has somehow learned how to get the most out of life without sacrificing its values. There is still a lingering sense of romance in the American view of Europe, and a frequent notion that somehow the Europeans are less hysterical about sex; but the notion of European sexual wickedness compared to American purity is fading with the consciousness that most European countries are, in fact, far less "permissive" than the U.S. today...
Bundy rejected the notion that the U.S. decision-making processes described in the Papers would help other countries predict future American policy...
...CURRENT siege of Wounded Knee, the Peabody Museum's exhibit of American Indian Art is full of sobering echoes. These paintings are caught between a culture which never separated the notion of art from life as a whole, and one which occasionally sends young Indian painters to commercial art schools and sometimes hangs their paintings in museums. Some of the painters even have two names: one for life among Indians and one for life among white...