Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shostakovich, music was indeed the last hope and final refuge of a man perpetually thwarted in the expression of his moral outrage. But the notion that his music's meaning could be made intelligible to Stalin, or to anyone else, was only a comforting illusion. Stalin, like all Russia's other tyrants, held an attitude toward the arts that was best summed up by a bureaucrat in a story by the 19th century satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin: "What I do not understand is dangerous for the state...
...stake in its outcome." Duke even went so far as to buy English bulldogs to suggest his connection with Old Eli. Despite gaping holes in the Ivy League story--a friend once hailed Duke as a classmate from Penn in Geoffrey's earshot--Geoffrey "preferred this fabulous notion to the transparent reality." Children year for security above all and so "it never occurred to me that my father lied." Duke was not the only one to lead a life of deception. Perhaps Wolff can forgive his father more easily than most because he is uncomfortably cognizant of his guilty role...
...dealing with the greatest single concentration of power over human lives," he said, adding, "We accept the notion that this is a commodity that is to be used for profit. I suggest that you reassess this assumption...
Fisher said the police could not rule out the notion that someone living in Eliot broke into the suite. "Given the incident, there is a possibility that this is an inside job," she said, adding, "It's very scary...
Milne said MIT plans to build an office park there similar to the one in Tech Square, although financial considerations have delayed development. "Our general notion is to develop that property for tax-producing, job-producing purposes," he said. "I was elected president of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, so the business community must think well of the school...