Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concentration be mandatory for Afro-American Studies concentrators. Although this proposal was defeated, the narrow margin of the vote (69-66) indicates that there is strong sentiment in favor of this measure. Kilson argues that joint concentration would enable concentrators to learn a "discipline." If taken seriously, the vague notion of "discipline" could be a crippling factor to both students and the department...
Thus he dismissed the notion that draft evaders might pay their debt to society by performing some useful service. In fact, he implied that working in the Peace Corps is not especially useful at all. The Administration, he went on, had done the best it could "against very great obstacles. We finally achieved a peace with honor. I know it gags some of you to write that phrase, but it is true-and most Americans realize it is true...
...idea might charitably be called the brainchild of Los Angeles-based Program Director Bill Drake, who runs the action for RKO's 14 powerful pop-music stations. The concept is founded on the premise that the average radio audience changes every 30 minutes. Thus the notion is to keep repeating?over and over and over again?the same monster items that everyone wants to hear. In fact, Top 40 is an illusory designation; 25 is more like it. "Getting a record into air play," says Kal Rudman, publisher of an East Coast record tip sheet, "is tougher than getting...
...TRYING TO define the purposes of undergraduate education, I do not proceed from some unconscious notion of the ideal graduate. In the brief space of four years, a college education can make only a limited contribution to the lives of its students; many of the traits and accomplishments that one would most admire depend primarily on a host of other influences and experiences. I have also put aside the subject of how a college can provide the happiest possible existence for its students. Certainly, this is an important aim in itself. Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future...
Johnson was shaped and shadowed for life by the hill country of Texas. To him, the world was just Johnson City grown big. He shared the prairie populist notion of mid-America that a wicked "they"-usually Wall Street or scheming foreign diplomats-were insidiously taking control. For most of Johnson's political life, "they" were the Communists. He was baffled by and suspicious of Eastern intellectuals and especially Harvard men. A story he told and always with loud laughter was that when he had gathered his top men in the Cabinet room there were Rhodes scholars, men from...