Word: notionalism
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...From my background, I guess I grew up with a traditional notion of what they called "teaching-related exhibitions." Places like Ivy League schools think of the university art museum as a laboratory for students studying the history of art. When I started at the Rose back in the mid-1970s I was kind of naturally inclined to provide some exposure for Boston-area artists, to broaden support. For years I felt guilty that I didn't do any so-called "teaching-related exhibitions." I guess my approach was that you put up some reasonably good works and that...
Scarry deplores the notion that books must be indecipherable in order to be important. She insists academic life is much more than a flurry of incomprehensible writings exchanged between scholars...
According to her notion, a person contemplating a beautiful object is "decentered" by their awareness of beauty outside of themselves. This helps them act ethically toward others...
...circus in Sever 113, however, was a sorry spectacle to all who attended, only confirming the belief that the council is ill equipped to deal with the expulsion of popularly elected officers and that such a decision should be left to the students. The notion that the proceedings were actually a "trial" couldn't be farther from the truth; the council spent as much time debating procedure as determining fact. So-called "witnesses" were asked to testify as to what they believed, thought or speculated, not what they knew, and their often partisan answers did more to obscure than...
...with big government agencies, particularly those from other countries, for fear of compromising web secrets. So if you're looking for a hot stock in the Internet world, you might want to consider one of these cyber-security firms. After all, if there's one thing scarier than the notion of a bored kid holding America's economy hostage with a new smurfing program, it's the prices these types of firms will be able to charge for their services...