Word: notional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learning about the Ecole de Paris, the Japanese visitors were facing severe odds. Nothing in their culture had prepared them for the Western modernist ethos. They came from a world enlaced with traditional forms, in which the idea of an avant-garde was barely conceivable and the notion of radical renewal seemed like cultural parricide. Terms like expression and the self had quite different loadings in Paris and in Tokyo. The rapid change of styles in Paris -- fauvism, cubism, expressionism, surrealism -- was bewildering. But they seemed portents of cultural renewal; so even with Japanese who were painfully aware that their...
Justice William Brennan, in a dissent joined by Justices Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun, strongly rejected the notion that school-sponsored speech was less worthy of protection than any other. He complained that the new ruling might permit school officials to censor anything that personally offended them. "The young men and women of Hazelwood East expected a civics lesson," he lamented, "but not the one the court teaches them today...
Israel is an a quandary of state-threatening proportions. As Shimon Peres pointed out in a recent interview, either Israel admits the Palestinians to full citizenship in order to remain democratic but losing the notion of a Jewish state or it continues to oppress them and as a result becomes an illiberal regime...
Forget it; pigs will fly first. Ditto your other crazy notion, the one about the roller-skating trains. What else...
...Senate was told by + Government witnesses during ratification hearings is not relevant to what the treaty really means on the subject of space-based defense. This outrages Nunn, who threatens to review the entire negotiation record of the INF pact unless the President and his advisers abandon the notion that they can reinterpret a treaty after the Senate has ratified...