Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other Afrikaners talk about the sacrifices that lie ahead. Implicit in these phrases may be a startling notion: that the Afrikaners, short of the long-predicted Armageddon, might conceivably be prepared to hitch up their ox wagons once again and retreat backward toward the old Boer republics and the Cape, striking some sort of bargain in power sharing or land sharing with rivaling black nationalism. Any such solution would lie in the distant future. For the moment, there is only a sense throughout the beleaguered white tribe that the present system cannot hold, but that the prescriptions decreed...
...after all, it is only normal American behavior that now seems profligate. Self-interest in the U.S. is more than the norm; it is the hallowed root of a society that has thrived on the notion that the common good results when individuals strive to get and enjoy as much as they can in a competition umpired only by the marketplace. It is that notion in action that accounts for the stunning fact that the U.S. burns up such a disproportionate 32% share of the entire world's energy (while also turning out, it is fair to remember...
Kosinski's novels reflect this notion. His writing style exemplifies it; his protagonists characterize...
Kosinski sees life that way... random, unconnected, and without design. He said, "The notion of a plot is fraudulent; there is no central plot to our lives." Denying the plot, the grand design, Kosinski concentrates on the incident, weaving his novels "around a system of conscious moments." The individual, by his very presence in those moments, creates whatever unity exists in life and becomes the "connective element...
George Levanter never hesitates before accepting a "blind date." As the hero of Jerzy Kosinski's latest novel, Blind Date, he would violate the author's entire notion of how life should be lived if he were...