Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never particularly liked, has become a political liability. President Ford intends to drop detente from his lexicon. "It's only a word," the President said last week. "I don't think it is applicable any more." The word may not be applicable - or politically safe - but the notion of working to reduce the risk of a U.S. -Soviet confrontation is certainly important. Yet Kissinger is being faulted for giving Moscow undue advantages in his eagerness to reach agreements...
...would be one thing if the basketball program was indeed at a loss for talent, a popular notion which most people around here are willing to accept, but this simply isn't the case. The Crimson may not be Top Twenty material, but it certainly isn't Ivy basement material, either, and being in the cellar of the Ivy League in basketball is one of the greater embarrassments which any team could suffer...
...This notion-or is it an accusation?-bears looking at as Massachusetts, Florida and all the rest bear down on us. The vogue phrase for coverage that overwhelms an occasion and by magnification distorts it is "media event." But before this catchy description becomes the accepted word, before critics of the press begin their chant about conspiratorial press cabals, it might be wise to ask what real influence the press had over the event. This year, probably not much. New Hampshire produced too many words, but only the egregious prattle of the local press lord, William Loeb, could be said...
...Harvard, contrary to union rhetoric, exerts no undue influence on the NLRB, or at least not directly. George Leet, a spokesman for the Washington board, called the notion "ridiculous;" Fuchs, Powers, and even union attorneys agreed...
Some task force members fear that failure to reach agreement in the task forces and coordinating committee could throw the final educational decisions into Rosovsky's lap, rendering worthless years of work and the dean's carefully devised system. Rosovsky rejected this notion ("I hope you don't have an army view of the way things work") and insists that, although he is chairman of the coordinating panel, each of its members has an equal voice. And to act by fiat, Rosovsky adds, would only be to doom his efforts to failure: "This faculty is self-governing in educational matters...