Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WORLD, some say, is wonderful in the eyes of the innocent. If there is any truth to this notion, Ben Shahn's photographs should be taken as the finest sort of proof. Shahn was not a photographer by profession, but the photographs which he made on the occasions when he did pick up a camera are graceful, articulate and humorous in the most sophisticated of ways...
...Fairbanks doesn't know how to deal with his players, to treat them like men. He can't begin to appreciate the pride they have in themselves. Fairbanks still operates on some misplaced notion that for Team, God and Country, men want to win. But they win for each other, not for the fans, not for the coach...
...inhabitants or less, I can cull couples and triples of Central Square cafes with blacked out windows and steel doors bearing discreet Budweiser placards, or upper stories rented by optometrists, orthodontists and somebody named Arthur Savage, Tax Acct. Not even the neon camel propped above A Nubian Notion is unique; it glows in Roxbury...
...graduated sizes of building blocks stacked one on the other and painted in chalky blue and white stripes after the Greek national colors--the place looked as though it might have been built for a carnival. Recordings of reggae and soul music clatter from the threshold of A Nubian Notion, but the sound is all right for someone strolling past to shuffle around...
...million people are fractured into 100 tribes, speak dozens of dialects, and are spread over 895,000 square miles, much of it primitive jungle. That achievement, however, has been bought at the expense of democracy; Zaïreans' are expected to conform strictly to "Mobutisme," an often eccentric notion of nationalism propounded by Le Guide, as the President calls himself. Among other matters, Mobutu in recent years has ordered that all Zaïreans adopt African rather than Christian names. Setting a national example, the President in 1971 changed his name from Joseph Mobutu...