Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says he is not worried, but admits he is toying with the idea of giving up the rehabilitation business and moving to Washington to start an operation that will distribute distressed merchandise, such as mislabeled canned food and slightly flawed clothing, to the needy. "It's a bigger notion than Synanon is now," Dederich says. "I have the normal desire to get my name in the newspapers and history books...
...feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range. Besides, those macho chaps have been bossing outdoor barbecues and clambakes for decades and were ready to move their talent indoors. Today virtually every newspaper in the country has its home-stirred food columns, and several of their authors?notably the New York Times's Claiborne, his colleague Pierre Franay and the Washington Post's William Rice...
...brokers brought this notion to their boss, Julien Studley, then 41, head of an aggressive real estate firm in the neighborhood. "Who would put up the building?" Studley mused; then he had an idea. "How about the people across the street?" Across the street, as it happened, was the corporate headquarters of First National City Corp. (now Citicorp...
...Choreographer Geoffrey Holder has cast the colorful show with blacks and set it in the fabulously wealthy capital of 14th century Mali. Eartha Kitt plays the wife of the wicked Wazir who wrongs Melba Moore, a sweet young country girl. Moore, whose face is dotted with Holder's notion of tribal markings, says that she loves the chance to "kick up my heels a bit" and "to get the prince and live happily ever after-like in all the fairy tales and good soaps...
Well, that is an interesting notion. Nihilism of that sort creates the perfect Catch-22 situation. Exactly how does one go about proving--proofs being rooted in the acceptance of causality--that causality does not exist? Needless to say, Toffler did not pursue that interesting philosophical question too far. After all, he had only an hour to speak. It is difficult to dismantle the foundations of knowledge and still have time to warn your audience of the third great revolution that is sweeping the world...