Word: notionalism
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...notion that first-years don't need Faculty interaction is "a demeaning idea," Nathans says. "Faculty should not slough off younger students...
...jazz players, especially schooled ones, don't really get that. They're such individualists and free-lancers that they don't understand what all rock people understand: which is what it means to be in a band. That's what the Either/Orchestra had right from the very beginning, this notion that we're in this together to make music together. And that's how people hear music. They hear the sound of the ensemble. The first impression is "What does the music sound like?" not "What does the guy in the plaid pants sound like?" I think...
...Ruddigore satirizes the notion of marriage in other ways, most notably through the chorus of Professional Bridesmaids, led by Susannah Graves '03 in the role of Zorah, who are all desperately waiting for Rose to get married so that they, too, can soon partake in wedded bliss. For the meantime, their engaging singing and dancing relieves them of vain longings for marriage, although by the end of the show Zorah seems to have found herself a mate, and one assumes that the other seven Bridesmaids will soon follow. The Bridesmaids shine in the ensemble numbers, such as their opening song...
...Israel against its Mideastern foes. "There's been a movement over the past decade to begin looking very seriously at the ways in which the Holocaust has been 'marketed' and used in support of contemporary political goals," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "As difficult as that notion may be for some people to engage, it's an important and reasonable topic for discussion. A ruling that excludes Irving from the realm of legitimate historical scholarship creates more space for serious discussion among academics who accept the basic truths of the Holocaust, but who're asking important questions about...
...academic Deborah Lipstadt over her 1994 book that slammed him as a Holocaust denier. Irving had sought to establish serious scholarly credentials for his claims that Hitler had been unaware of the Nazis' "Final Solution" until late in the war, and for his attempts to refute the notion that Jews had been systematically exterminated in the concentration camps, but the judge was unimpressed...