Word: notional
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Teilhard never recanted his basic notion about the existence of a spiritual reality that suffused all matter (man and animals included) and had evolved into a "noosphere"-his term for a layer of human awareness that enveloped the earth like some psychic biosphere. As this envelopment progressed, Teilhard believed, man would eventually transcend his individualism and converge at the "Omega Point" with the Omega -God. Instead of God's creation at the beginning of time, Teilhard emphasized instead his ongoing and future creative activity. To orthodox critics, this vision destroyed the distinction between man and nature, and veered perilously...
...cases make bad law, Flynt's may be a classic of the genre. His was one of the most important obscenity trials since the Supreme Court, in Miller v. California (1973), abandoned the notion that there are national standards of what is acceptably sexually explicit in print and film. Instead, the court held that local juries could decide what is obscene for their communities.* Publishers and civil libertarians now fear that Flynt's conviction may encourage local law officials to harass other national publications, including those far more acceptable to most Americans than Flynt's seedy monthlies...
Third, the relative transcript proposal would put an end to significant attempts at educational reform begun in the last decade. The notion of courses which are selfpaced or use contract grading, for example, which allows for student evaluation according to self-determined set criteria will be downgraded in importance because graduate and professional schools will focus their attention on courses which were graded relatively. Faculty will probably be forced into a grading-on-the-curve system, rather than one which is realistically geared to what students actually learn in a course...
...United States doesn't have a "shadow cabinet", but in the months ahead Cy Vance may be looking over his shoulder for evidence of one in the State Department. Lest Vance get hung up on the silly notion that he's the head honcho for foreign policy in the Carter camp, Zbigniew Brzezinski will be lurking in the dark corners of Foggy Bottom, trying to imitate the back-door strategy of another diplomat from the halls of academe...
That pensive lady clutching the eerie-looking doll is Susan Blakely in Secrets, ABC's chilling movie scheduled to air Feb. 20. Model-turned-Actress Blakely, 27, plays Andrea, a psychologically disturbed young wife who turns into a nymphomaniac. She is also possessed by the notion that her dead mother is a wicked puppet queen. Her mother's crime? Teaching Andrea that everything she does must be aimed at attracting men. "What the mother teaches the child is almost like the normal belief system many women are taught," observes Blakely. "The plot is something women will connect...