Word: notionalism
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...biggest obstacle to students and other people seeking help for a significant depression is the notion that what they are experiencing isn’t real or is out of the ordinary and can’t be helped...
...enter the political fray this election, and some have questioned whether Democrats-namely Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois representative who is thought to have personally recruited Duckworth-were exploiting a veteran wracked with emotional and physical scars. Duckworth dismisses such talk, as well as the notion that the race is about national issues like the war. "I've been under much more stress when people's lives are on the line," she said. "This I can handle...
...Kidd said, “When more and more groups are formed around smaller interests, people are less likely to see the larger picture.”“On the other hand,” Kidd said, “no one wants to disagree with the notion that students want to associate with whom they want to associate with.”But leaders of campus ethnic groups rejected the notion that their organizations have a self-segregating tendency.“I think with any ethnic organization, people might say that the reason they exist...
...having an idea, making a movie-going from notion to release in a couple of months-that simply doesn?t happen any more, right? You can?t follow that kind of impulse...
...pale for a University that prides itself on the open exchange of diverse ideas. Students should have enough backbone to tolerate alternate viewpoints without allowing infantile instincts to govern their behavior. Those who claim an equivalent right of expression in tearing down the posters have a horribly impoverished notion of this right. Free speech is about the free exchange of ideas. It is not about shouting down a speaker, burning a book, or tearing down a legitimately placed poster. Hopefully, we will not see a day on this campus when the right of free speech deteriorates into some form...