Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couldn't be elected President' was an idea whose time had come ?and gone." Yet would they feel compelled to make that point again? The authors think not, citing the Kennedy experience: after Republican Catholics voted for Democrat John Kennedy in large numbers in 1960 to disprove the notion that a Catholic could not be elected President, Catholicism never again was a major voting issue. Now that Carter has won, Scammon and Wallenberg believe, the Southern issue is dead...
...CHILDREN PASS through their narcissistic stages and develop into adults, it is the notion of entitlement which begins to distinguish the classes. Poor children feel "narcissistic despair," while rich children feel "narcissistic entitlement," Coles says. And for someone who has often wondered how the rich and even some of the not-so-rich students at Harvard can act so often as though they own the world, the word entitlement lingers, suggesting some sort of an answer. Entitlement does not necessarily connote material possessions which "spoil" a child--a child can be spoiled and not necessarily feel that everything...
...years for what he called "Class X crimes," including rape, arson, hard-drug transactions and armed violence of any kind. The legislature watered down some features of the bill but basically gave him what he asked for. Says Thompson: "It's time to put to rest the notion that prisons are for rehabilitation. When they can accomplish that end, it is good. But the primary purpose of prison is to separate criminals from the rest of us and to punish them so as to deter other people from similar behavior...
...officials hoped the Egyptians understood that there were limits to the pressures the U.S. could apply. "Unfortunately," said one, "Sadat still thinks all we have to do is snap our fingers to get Israel to do our bidding. We're going to try to disabuse him of that notion...
Olive and Mary Anne seems unlikely to win the author a vast new public. Audiences will be attracted by another, larger project. NBC has plans for a high-budget miniseries based on Studs Lonigan-a kind of Hibernian Roots. The notion of commercial television popularizing an old radical is an irony too strong even for a James T. Farrell character-and just right for this neglected author...