Word: notionalism
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...1960s and the sporty "Beene bag" dress in the '70s, and in the early '90s used ballerinas as models to demonstrate the ethereal lightness of his designs. Known as a contrarian among his designer peers, Beene did not follow trends or play the fashion game, often rejecting the notion of fashion as commerce in favor of fashion as art. - By Kate Betts MOVING. MONTREAL EXPOS, to Washington, D.C., after 36 years in Canada. Major League Baseball, which bought the financially troubled team three years ago, picked Washington as the team's new home, the city's first Major League team...
...notion that the president mishandled Iraq is a particularly dubious assertion when coming from the mouth of John Kerry. In his speech at New York University last week, the senator said, “Five months ago, in Fulton, Missouri, I said that the President was close to his last chance to get it right… [w]e must act with urgency.” For all of Kerry’s urgency and insistence that the situation in Iraq has been mishandled, he seems completely unable to articulate a plan of action for Iraq five months after...
...winter's night in Melbourne in 1967 that John Deeble, a bright young academic answering a summons, met the head of the Australian Labor Party to discuss Deeble's pet topic. In the home of a Labor parliamentarian, Deeble was calm as he spoke on the notion of a universal health insurance system with the imposing Opposition leader, Gough Whitlam. "Why should I have been nervous?" Deeble, 73, says now. "I knew more about the subject than he did." Whitlam liked what he heard and asked Deeble and colleague Dick Scotton to put something in writing. Within a year their...
Shireen Khan, 19, in running pants, a plain white shirt, Reeboks and a lavender hijab, was waiting in line for the Nitro with two female friends. She pooh-poohed the notion that the day's event might be a kind of refuge for an overscrutinized community. "It's not about that," she said. "I come here twice a year, and I like it, but today there's good halal food, and there's prayer. We have so many friends in the tristate area, we never see each other, and today everybody's here." Her cousin Soofia Tahir suspected there might...
BUSH DESCRIBES HIMSELF ABOVE ALL AS a man who can make decisions. I doubt that anyone would argue with that. The President's decisions have, however, adhered to neoconservative political principles. The notion that a single political philosophy best serves the needs of a nation is simplistic, arrogant and dangerous. Effective leadership requires the ability to distribute dissatisfaction across all parties. Bush's brand of leadership lacks both discernment and the courage to confront his conservative power base...