Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that there is a momentary lull in the outpouring of Watergate books, another legacy of the Nixon era needs closer scrutiny. This is the notion, propagated by Richard Nixon, that Government and the press have an adversary relationship. What Nixon meant by the phrase he made perfectly clear in a letter to Spiro Agnew during the 1968 campaign: "When news is concerned, nobody in the press is a friend-they are all enemies." But why the press should have seized upon the adversary description and proudly flaunted it ever since is harder to understand...
...what intellectual experiences will prepare them for that reality, the Core will reward students who passively accept the status quo. And instead of allowing students to deal personally with accelerating change, and to seek out and shape desirable futures, the Core is structured to meet the liberal establishment's notion that students are raw resources that must first be molded to certain specifications before being permitted to fully interact with society...
...peoplehood (am) of the Jews is a congenital condition I accept, along with a share in their fate. At the same time, I refuse to be burdened by such supernatural anachronisms as God, the Covenant. Divine Revelation, the Chosen People, the Messiah (what a mischievous and tragic notion!), etc.-although I know and respect the ethical content of the Jewish view of these ideas. It is enough that I am and my people are. To the orthodox, metadox and paradox Jews, the polydox are a welcome new strain...
Namo and I had some vague notion of our direction, of looking for the Great American Spring Vacation in Florida, in Fort Lauderdale, mixing with the young and healthy and promising Undergraduates of Our Time. Hearty drinking and hedonism--it was a simple goal. A little honest lust had a definite appeal. There had been too many nights spent squinting at obscure volumes in Lamont, too many nights hanging out at House grilles and Harvard Square bars, too many pointless dinner conversations, too many wild spring days already spent in gloomy rooms and lecture halls. Our 20-year-old libidos...
...much the same at Norris' other inner-city factories. Says he: "Businessmen come to visit those plants, and they ask, ' Jeez, don't you have terrible trouble with people breaking your windows and smearing your walls?' The answer is no- because if somebody gets a notion to do that, they had better watch out. People in the neighborhood protect the plant. It's a source of pride as well as jobs. They feel it is theirs...