Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collection, these things are only elements of an artistic vocabulary; they are only symptoms, not causes of the artists' perception. Comparing Pechstein's Native Dances (1916) with Heckel's Bathers by the Alter River (1913), one sees that the stylistic traits are the same, though Heckel created his own notion of primitive society out of a jumble of African and South Pacific objects he found at hand in Germany, while Pechstein had the chance to travel to the South Seas and observe a native culture personally...
...Leisure, Equality and Welfare, an essay soon to be published by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Beckerman challenges another notion dear to many Club of Rome theorists - that G.N.P. is inadequate as a broad measure of how well a country's citizens are faring...
Braden's notion of the miserable, duty-whipped jogger is hard to support by talking to the runners themselves. In farm country near Aurora, Ill., a couple of weeks ago, 17 souls who could have been sitting in front of the tube with six-packs smeared Vaseline on their feet, to ward off blisters, and loped off for a 50-mile foot race. The temperature was close to 90°. By the 20-mile mark, 35-year-old Romance Language Teacher Alberto Meza gave up and rolled under a faucet in the Johnson's Mound Forest Preserve. Water...
...from a proposal that would, in reality, be an imperfect solution to the problem of adequately representing the interest of the consumer in the government proceedings. The unfortunate result has been that when critics discredit the overblown claims of the Naderites, they seem also to have discredited the entire notion of creating an institutional advocate of consumer viewpoints...
...demonstrated by Portland's performance when he did not play. Of those 17 Walton-less games, Portland won only five-a percentage barely above that of the hapless New York Nets. As the season wore on and Walton did not wear out, Portland was struck by an unfamiliar notion: the championship was within reach...