Word: notional
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...cites studies showing that endomorphic lasses are more responsive to erotic stimulation and have greater sexual appetites. In one survey conducted in a Chicago hospital, "fat women outscored their thin sisters by a factor of almost two to one," in terms of excitability. Only our culture's notion that fat is "morally and sexually repulsive" has produced the idea that a fat woman's overeating is a substitute for her sex drive, says Beller. The fact is her cravings for food and fun exist simultaneously. Now that Beller has established that fat is where...
...conclusion about where they stand, a disturbing number still seem to be basing their positions on misinformed, and in some cases pernicious, assumptions. Most of those misguided preconceptions revolve not around the Bakke case specifically, but around the nature of affirmative action in general. One wrong-headed notion is that affirmative action can mean quotas; there are those who back U.C. Davis in the name of affirmative action but still think they are now supporting quotas in doing so. The other is that affirmative action implies a reduction of admissions standards. Far too many are thus feeling pressure to support...
...important in the community," Haughey recalls. "I also felt that if we could attract important artists, they could gather around them young Irish artists and establish centers of creativity." Touring Ireland, TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer found little indication as yet of any such cultural renaissance. But Haughey's notion of a permanent tax holiday for artists has at least stopped the drain of home-grown talent...
...practitioners take a conventional Freudian idea-that much adult behavior is unconsciously guided by early traumas-and apply it to the concept of reincarnation. Although the treatment has had a following in the U.S. and Europe for at least 15 years, more and more Americans are experimenting with the notion that their psychological problems arose during previous existences as, say, Shinto priests, Roman guards, citizens of Atlantis or even another planet...
Well, I'll tell you...And to think that for all these years that we Americans were deluding ourselves with the notion that cancer was killing us, when it was cancerphobia instead!! Anyhow, when the Food Services were contacted last week and pressed to identify the author of this gratuitous swill, a spokesperson said, "No one wrote it." It seems that it was a slow summer in the Feedback mailroom, and so the Big Codfish and Ms. Knish were instructed to come up with a page of meaningful filler for the upcoming Registration Issue...