Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There still seems to be a surfeit of criticism, not much of it loving. Explained Eleanor Holmes Norton, 39, New York City Commissioner of Human Rights: "We are drunk on the notion that America progressively gets better. We fail to see that because the world is more complicated, this great Horatio Alger country is finding it difficult to do things that were fairly easy to do before." The result is disappointment and disillusionment...
...people are not biological effects of aging. "They are the results of role playing... They [the aging] are supposed to be physically and intellectually infirm." Example: many old people are uncertain, meandering drivers because they are expected to be, just as many women come to adopt the male notion of the dithering woman driver. "Older, fit drivers are the least dangerous on the road," writes Comfort. "By 70-plus you have experience, and the accident-prone fraction of the population is dead or disqualified...
...First, though, they must overcome the feeling of embarrassed outrage" at the notion of communicating with animals at their own level and then develop the necessary techniques of disguise, imitation and communicatory interaction...
...vital problem of increasing production to feed and support China's ever growing population (around 850 million), the moderates stressed practical approaches, including such "revisionist" devices as higher wages for more work and the notion that each state enterprise should be run efficiently enough to produce a profit. Recognizing the need for high technology in areas like oil production, computers and aircraft, the moderates have not hesitated to buy some goods from foreign countries-a policy the radicals derided as the "worship of things foreign." "In our Socialist state," said one article, "the development of production does not rely...
...widely accepted element of Keynesian economics: the idea that rich people save a greater proportion of their incomes than do the poor. Among other implications, this meant that developing countries should preserve a big gap in income between rich and poor, in order to encourage growth. Friedman countered that notion with his own theory of "permanent income": Whether rich or poor, consumers will spend less if they expect their income to be temporary than if they expect the same income level to continue permanently...