Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current pinups. One of Marina's revelations to McMillan is that she provoked Lee's fury with talk of her sexual attraction for Kennedy. It may well have been one reason why Lee's free-floating rage finally settled on the President. That is a compelling notion - more so than many of the conspiracy theories that depersonalize Oswald by pointing to some cold-blooded organization with a hired gun. The truth may be appallingly more human...
...were not the remains of a freak ape or a deformed human. The ancient, erect-walking creatures had apparently been plentiful and widely distributed; it now seemed indisputable that modern man had evolved from more primitive ancestors. But still not even those who acknowledged his age had any clear notion of man's antiquity. Even the evolutionists saw the whole course of human development as a fairly recent phenomenon, and no one had any real conception of its causes...
...patient searchers discern more and more about early man and his predecessors, they also may gain an ever-widening insight about modern man, his nature, his failings and his future. Most major anthropologists reject the notion popularized by Robert Ardrey (The Territorial Imperative) and others that man is inherently aggressive and that his murderous instincts derive from his apelike origins. Indeed, they have found no evidence in their digs that man was anything but a peaceable hunter-gatherer before the invention of agriculture some 10,000 years ago. It was farming, they believe, that created settlers with property to protect...
...courses--Planning Process: Political and Institutional Analysis, Planning Law and Administration and Urban Growth and Spatial Structure--provide students with the necessary foundation in other relevant disciplines, including physical planning. H. James Brown Jr., professor of City Planning, sums up the opinion of many of his colleagues saying, "the notion that too much economics is included is based on little information of what is really in the program...
...affairs. Weapons sales to Iran could spark a new arms race in the Persian Gulf, and the personnel needed to train the Iranians will add to an American presence in that part of the world that is already too large. Of even greater importance is the absence of any notion of the Shah's plans, of what he wants to do with the billions the U.S. has been sending...