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Word: notionalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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DEFINITIVE VERSION: Proulx's economical epic. Her unforced, almost taciturn manner better communicated the notion that tragedy is not the sole province of the self-conscious. It can devastate the dim and inarticulate as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books Vs. Movies | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...very polemical," says Tan from the San Francisco house she shares with her lawyer husband Lou DeMattei. "I just wanted readers to have a better understanding of moral complexities. I wanted to examine, for instance, the notion that people must die in order to make things better." She cites a controversial 1996 British television exposé of abuses at Chinese orphanages. "Right away the orphanages were closed, adoptions discontinued, cleft-palate and other special surgery stopped. My husband and I worked with some of those orphanages, so we know what was at stake. Does publicly humiliating China save lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostage To Fortune | 11/26/2005 | See Source »

...antique but resilient notion of Manhattan's glamorous otherness-of a WASP elite as tall, thin and gleaming as Deco skyscrapers, of an oasis of chic, an object of pride and envy for the white ethnics living in Brooklyn and the Bronx and Paramus and points west-has a lot to do with a 10-block patch of midtown real estate called Broadway. That's where the swells dressed up for the opening night of a Gershwin show starring Fred and Adele Astaire. The Woolworth Building, four miles down the street, was the Cathedral of Commerce; the village of legitimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Falsetto Meets "The Sopranos" | 11/25/2005 | See Source »

...Jersey Boys hews to the bio-facts, and to the notion that any story about the Italian-American working class has to be about elaborate ritual behavior and ties with the mob. As in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, the Seasons' philandering is strictly regimented; one of them says, "You had your real family and your road family." As in Scorsese's Mean Streets, four guys hang out looking for the big score, and one of them get in trouble with a don. By the end of Act I, Tommy owes a half-million dollars to various nefarious gents. Recalling their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Falsetto Meets "The Sopranos" | 11/25/2005 | See Source »

...dismissed concerns that the proposed curriculum gives students too much freedom, arguing that most students will seek classes outside their discipline.“I think these fears are overdrawn,” said Maier, a former Crimson editorial chair. “These concerns rest up on a notion of our students which really is not worthy of them.”And Harvard College Professor and Kemper Professor of American History James T. Kloppenberg said that from conversations with officials at Brown University and Amherst College, which have few academic requirements for undergraduates, he learned that between...

Author: By William C. Marra and Sara E. Polsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faculty Discuss Gen Ed Report | 11/23/2005 | See Source »

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