Word: notionalism
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...there's plenty of hard stuff here for the commission members to break their pencils on. While this group may agree on the notion of privatizing at least some of Social Security, there is a whole wide landscape of things over which they have an opportunity to disagree. Here are some of the tough questions they'll face...
...thus conclude that they somehow threaded the teaching needle perfectly, introducing letters and words at just the right time. But the reality is often that they simply got lucky and had a kid who took a shine early on to a particular skill. "People took the notion of a critical period and misunderstood it to apply to all learning," says Dr. Sparrow of Children's Hospital...
...that isn't the place she achieved, it is true all the same that no midcentury woman in the English-speaking world influenced taste the way she did in the 1960s. Audrey Hepburn was cuter, the Duchess of Windsor had more spending power; but Jackie crystallized an emerging notion of modernity for both the elites she moved among: the newly prosperous middle classes and those still striving to move up. In the cultural politics of the cold war world, her elegance also made an irrefutable argument for the U.S. (One look at Nikita Khrushchev's wife Nina and you understood...
...sleek, clean lines that were the last word in mid-'50s modern, a style Jackie adopted as her own. But by 1960, John F. Kennedy was running for President. It would not do for him to have a wife who gave the impression that the French flag was her notion of the red, white and blue--or one who could spend more on clothes than most families made in a year. Both problems came together early in J.F.K.'s campaign, when Women's Wear Daily reported that Jackie and Rose Kennedy together spent the then phenomenal...
...would never have had a chance to get on the musical merry-go-round watched it stop for just long enough to jump on. We were a band before we could play and formed our band around an idea of friendship and shared spirit. That was a preposterous notion before the Ramones. --Bono, lead singer...