Word: notionalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...debate seemed a signpost: the beginning of the real campaign after more than a year of fund-raising and inside baseball. And her performance seemed a crystallization of the problems that have always plagued Clinton, the notion that she is perpetually calculating, triangulating and cold, without core convictions. On the other hand, in several dozen interviews over a weekend in Iowa, I simply couldn't find anyone who had actually seen the debate - not even among the political junkies who attend her meetings. Clinton's public demeanor at these rallies suggested that she had taken the punch and moved...
...what Washington would call a textbook campaign. But the problem is the textbook itself," says Obama. There is something to that. The prospect of a woman President is so unusual that there is a real need to sell a textbook political image, the notion that Clinton wouldn't be much different from, or less tough than, any of her male opponents. There is a need to show her as solid and personally conservative - the sort of person who won't go crazy on us. And there is the ever present all-too-textbook reality of the Clinton machine: a campaign...
...Bush Administration, not surprisingly, rejects the notion that it has somehow corrupted the system. Says Clay Johnson, Deputy Director of Management for the Office of Management and Budget and Chairman of the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, which oversees all government IGs: "By almost all accounts, this Administration has done more to improve government effectiveness than any previous Administration, ever...
...enjoy seeing him enjoy his success - the gigantic mansion in which he installs his formerly dirt-poor family, his trophy wife, the celebrity that comes to him. There has never been much point in deploring a gangster's rise; it's his demise that we fear - the notion that the American go-getter must inevitably be gotten. "Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?" Robinson moans at the end of Little Ceasar -as surprised as we are by a death that may be tragically ordained, but is also a sop to conventional morality...
...peace despite the subject matter. Each poem in the fourth section, “From the Questions of Bhanu Kapil,” takes its title from a question from Bhanu Kapil Rider’s “The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers,” expanding the notion that “Little Boat” is simply a collage of thoughts. In the second section, “Jesus Said,” and the concluding section, “Maria Gravida, Mary Expectant,” Valentine turns to the spiritual. In “Maria...