Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notion that busing is the last or only hope to achieve integration is a mistake," Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, told a national forum on school desegregation on Saturday in Louisville...
...becomes too intrusively a father figure. Worst of all are Teichmann's omissions. Absent from his script are many of West's most pungent passages; missing too are several key incidents which suggest that Miss Lonelyhearts' real impulse in the face of suffering is to destroy the sufferer--a notion which West insists on but which comes across only indirectly in the play...
...they run for Congress, and so on. Being an adult doesn't necessarily mean giving up childish things, the apostle Paul not-withstanding. As a fan of comic books in my grade school years, I suppose I always knew that comics didn't just generate themselves spontaneously, but the notion that grown men and women could spend their lives doing nothing but making up ridiculous stories about heroes who can fly and jump over buildings and stop speeding trains...well, it never crossed my mind. What on earth would a grown man be doing writing comic books for a living...
...what I'm going to do after this show, Steve has an idea for a musicalization of a bizarre kind of piece that at first didn't interest me at all. Now it does because I got the notion to do it in the same theater and environment that we did Candide. That attracts me a lot, but I can't talk about it much because it's not in P.D. (public domain...
...those of Amanda Wingfield, Blanche du Bois or Hannah Jelkes (The Night of the Iguana), derive from maternal speech patterns. Mrs. Williams' predilections are also present in her son's fondness for plush hotels, in his dropping−and sometimes drop-kicking−names and in his notion that people, particularly critics, are not properly genuflectory before some of his poorer works...