Word: notionalism
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...notion that such food represents going back will be news to Middle America, where it remains the standard fare. Says Jean Hewitt, food editor of Family Circle (circ. 7 million): "It takes quite a long time for a trend to filter into the heartland. The East and West coasts are one group. They have decided what American cooking means to them, but that's not necessarily what the heart of America thinks it is." Certainly down-home food is not new to regulars at such enduring American establishments as Mrs. Wilkes' Boarding House in Savannah, where guests sit at community...
...recent years, however, publications like yours have ignored all opinions expressed by blacks except those deemed to be some sort of official "black view." Such individuals as Tom Sowell were forced into confrontational defenses of their well-researched and articulate conclusions, which differed from the media's general notion of the black view. If nothing more, you may be waking up to the reality that thinking by black individuals is no more dominated by pigmentation than is thinking by white individuals. Clarence Thomas, Chairman Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Washington
Reagan spoke first, and clearly from the heart. He inveighed against the "uncivilized nature" of mutually assured destruction (MAD), the doctrine of deterrence that has governed the superpower rivalry for more than two decades. He could not condone the notion, he said, of keeping the peace by threatening to blow up the world. We must, he implored Gorbachev, "find a better way." To the President, that meant reducing offensive weapons while seeking a transition to defensive weapons. He was quite conscious, he allowed, that Gorbachev sees a space defense system as simply a cover for achieving the capacity to wipe...
...California a federally funded voucher experiment died aborning in 1981 when students found alternative schools to be no better than those they had left. Elsewhere, the notion has little more support. A Chicago city council proposal for vouchers has triggered such strong opposition from the school board that the issue may wind up in court. In Minnesota a legislative compromise rejecting general vouchers but permitting juniors and seniors to use state school dollars for college courses is under attack by secondary-school administrators...
...Orlando two weeks ago, the poll has created a stir. Said one party official: "We've got to find a way to communicate better with the middle class." Does the rebuff of the fairness issue mean that the Democrats will abandon their traditional commitment to helping the disadvantaged? "The notion of fairness is not being rejected," D.N.C. Chairman Paul Kirk gamely insisted. "The middle class is just saying, 'Don't forget us.'" Kirk may wish that party officials would forget the poll. He has ordered them to quit talking about it until the complete findings are released later this month...