Word: notional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deinstitutionalization fit perfectly into the antiauthoritarian zeitgeist of the '60s and early '70s. Radical Psychiatrist R.D. Laing popularized the rather romantic notion that insanity could be a sane reaction to an insane world, while Sociologist Erving Goffman suggested that institutions, by their very nature, stifled individual development. Courts began to protect the rights of the mentally ill against the encroachments of the state. But in the 1980s, the continual seesaw in America between individual freedom and society's responsibility is tipping again...
...sold alongside regular magazines that deal with related topics. Followers of fashion, for example, may find catalogs for Brooks Brothers and Benetton next to Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, while cooks will find Community Kitchens and the Chef's Catalog alongside Gourmet. In a test run of the notion earlier this year at 1,000 Waldenbooks stores, more than half a million copies were sold...
...inevitable, however, that the unorthodox technique of going through the black community collecting fingerprints would eventually provoke a controversy. No matter how "voluntary" the program, the notion of methodically asking people who were not individually suspect to submit to an intrusive procedure simply because they were black raised some worrisome racial and civil-liberties issues. Said James Lieber, executive director of the Pittsburgh branch of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Blacks must relinquish their privacy or become suspect." N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks said it looked like "police power run amuck." William Penn, director of N.A.A.C.P.'s local branches, feared...
Freedom of the press as defined in the West is still a foreign notion in the Soviet Union. Rather, discussions among Soviet journalists about a free press concentrate on how much editorial independence is needed to help Gorbachev in his efforts to modernize the economy and revitalize the country. Glasnost, Soviet experts note, was not intended to mean freedom of information for information's sake...
...report. In addition, the cost of transferring responsibility from low-paid residents to high-salaried senior staff and implementing other reforms would be staggering: at least $200 million a year for G.N.Y.H.A.'s 70 member hospitals. The report also warned of introducing a "shift mentality" to medicine. This notion, it said, "is generally inconsistent with the delivery of high-quality patient care...