Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of those pressures seemed to be bothering Carter-yet. At a folksy post-election press conference at the railroad depot on Plains' main street, he rejected the notion that his victory was too narrow to permit him to act decisively as President. He pointed out, correctly, that 13 Presidents had been elected with less than 50% of the popular vote; he netted 51%. Moreover, in seven of the states he lost, he still collected 49% of the vote. Said Carter: "I'll be very aggressive in keeping my promises to the American people...
What happened at first was not very much, with the network rejecting the producers' first proposal (titled The Alley Cats). Later, they got a go-ahead on a revised proposal for a pilot from then ABC Vice President Michael Eisner. Still, the notion languished on the back burner until Fred Silverman (see box page 70) took over last year as president of ABC Entertainment. He was immediately attracted to the show and ordered Spelling-Goldberg to get cracking. They made a slick pilot, which won a place for the series on the fall schedule...
...sells it before the roof is finished," Alexis de Tocqueville wrote some 140 years before Charles Reich sublet his leaky Consciousness III to follow the sunset to California. Reich's evolutionary rebellion is, in fact, a mobile-home version of Consciousness III-that pot-scented notion that mankind can somehow escape civilization and its discontents. Gnomic and unpolitical, ER is part of the new solipsism and characteristic of a lot of people who, disillusioned by the radical politics in the '60s, withdrew into the various styles of the "personal growth" movement. Reich's version is a kind...
PAHK THE CAAH IN HAHVAHD YAHD--This little ditty mimicking the nuances of the Boston accent is based upon a mistaken notion that few non-Harvard people realize. Any vehicle parked in the Yard for an extended period of time--as a great many Harvard students can attest--will be towed away...
This personal political atmosphere is far removed from the popularized notion of bigmoney campaigns, big-city political machines, and victories by candidates cloaked in media fabrications...