Word: notionalism
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...have a skewed notion of who your students are you have false assumptions of what they’re putting into and getting from the environment,” Clayton-Pedersen said...
...obvious choice as the next editor of the anthology. The transition of the editorship from a Harvard graduate to a Harvard professor was not purposeful, Abrams said. “Other things being equal, we would have preferred to look west, just to change the notion that it’s an eastern-oriented or even a Harvard-centered anthology,” he said. But Greenblatt’s qualifications were unsurpassed, Abrams said. “I don’t know anybody better than him in the field of literature in his generation,” Abrams...
...Jewish settlements that fell on the wrong side. It's an interesting idea, and perhaps a good one, but it's not peacemaking, which requires mutual consent. Sharon almost certainly would have apportioned more West Bank land to Israel than the Palestinians would have kept the conflict alive. His notion of coming to terms with the Palestinians is a bit like the idea that getting out of a bad marriage is as simple as saying, "I divorce thee," and dictating the property settlement...
...post-1965 generation really is different," says David Reimers, a historian of immigration at N.Y.U. "The process of assimilation has been much faster." The inspiration for the notion of the "model minority," the generation's members have been most recognized for their high academic achievements, a reflection of their parents' drive for a certain kind of success. But that is only part of their story. Shuttling between two worlds?and seeming to fit into neither?many felt as if "they had no community," says Chang-rae Lee, a Korean-American novelist who has written about this generation's journey. "They...
...sessions of listening to Mozart, "he's now a very active speaker who responds immediately to whatever is said to him," Hindley says. "He's taken very profound steps forward." By far the most widespread - and most disputed - recent claim is that Mozart can enhance your brain power. That notion was first given scientific support in a 1993 article in Nature, which found that college students who listened to the first movement of Mozart's Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos performed better on a spatial reasoning test that involved mentally unfolding a piece of paper. The study...