Word: notional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is a chimera and liberals with a consistent philosophy realize it. The liberal notion of individual liberty and right to privacy, as we all know, holds only insofar as one person's actions do not adversely affect other people in society. It is impossible to argue that an abortionist's actions do not adversely affect at least one important person in addition to the woman: her child...
...only a limited number into the gallery at any one time, but that did not stop several veterans from taking the flag off the floor and holding it up while making speeches. Said James McManus, chairman of the school's liberal-arts department: "We are trying to defend the notion that all art, provocative art, can be displayed." That is certainly true at the Art Institute...
Many Americans believe firmly in the notion of better health through better eating. What bothers them is the specifics: Just how much of what foods, for example, are they supposed to be consuming? Last week, in a massive new report by the National Research Council, the public received the best answer yet. The 1,300-page document, titled Diet and Health: Implications for Reducing Chronic Disease Risk, sets forth the most comprehensive and detailed set of dietary guidelines ever...
Replacing the 10-odd Gen Ed course requirements split between the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, the Core introduced the notion of teaching "approaches to knowledge" in more specific areas including foreign studies, the arts, and "social and philosophical" reasoning. The Core's philosophy has been translated by administrators to mean non-departmental courses focusing not so much on facts as analysis, not so much on teaching a distribution requirement as teaching a "form of inquiry...
Harvard administrators resist the notion of a Western Civilization core, or a curriculum designed to distribute education among departmental courses...