Word: notionalism
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Life as theater, even as a theater of war, is a notion that emerges unexpectedly from many of these pictures, where the war sometimes seems a bizarre welter of chaos and formality, anarchy and self-conscious ceremony. The accumulated effect is not to mock human behavior as in-authentic but to acknowledge a yearning for dignity and order. Mydans' work springs from that same benign instinct. Through decades when each year put forward new varieties of suffering, he recorded the world's dislocations and helped to shape the heart's reply. --By Richard Lacayo
Soviet and East European news media had hinted that the Sofia meeting would produce new arms-control proposals. In the end it served up warmed-over Soviet initiatives, some already rejected by the West. The notion of declaring a nuclear-free Balkan zone was endorsed, along with a similar proposal for Northern Europe. With an eye to the likely deployment of U.S. cruise missiles in Belgium and the Netherlands, the document also suggested that the U.S. and the Soviet Union refrain from stationing nuclear weapons in nations that do not already have them and put a lid on existing nuclear...
...after he traveled to Nashville to write a piece for The New Yorker on the Grand Ole Opry, that he hit on the notion for the live evening show that shortly became A Prairie Home Companion. Years later the great country guitarist Chet Atkins heard from his agent, who said that "somebody in St. Paul wants you to work on a radio show for $300." Atkins was not thrilled, but then his daughter mentioned Keillor's show, and so did another musician. "I decided to tune in," he says. "That man's voice just mesmerizes people. I called my agent...
...Last summer Lotus Development (1984 sales: $157 million) cut the price of its Spotlight program, which competes with Sidekick, from $150 to $75. Microsoft (fiscal 1985 sales: $140 million) is now offering customers a $40 rebate on its rival Pascal software. Still, Microsoft President Jon Shirley scoffs at the notion that his firm will have to match Borland's prices any time soon. Though software may be expensive, he argues, the quality of programs has steadily improved, adding more value for the money. Says he: "There's no tremendous pressure from customers on prices...
...reform that, if successful, would likely be imitated elsewhere. As Kennedy notes, "Harvard is the most influential law school on legal education and how the outside world perceives law." It has also been a source of much of the thinking that is being fought over, including the mainstream faculty notion that law can contribute to incremental but progressive change in American society. "So many people on either side of the debate are the personification of the ideas being challenged," says David Douglas, a graduate last spring. "It's more than an intellectual debate for them. It's a critique...