Word: notionalism
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Cars, gross-out jokes, T. and A.--not the most elevated definition of manhood, but Hecht says it's all delivered with a wink. "[Men] know we're buffoons," he says. "We know that we can be made fun of." This notion is of a piece with the have-your-cheesecake-and-eat-it-too approach of men's TV from The Man Show to Coors' "Twins" beer commercials: we'll ironically acknowledge that we're drooling idiots in exchange for getting to look at boobies. But TV marketing coups don't necessarily appeal to viewers' better angels. The women...
...that, like his father, he opposes much of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's plan for reunifying the island. But he genuinely wants a deal, he claims. "Failure would not be the end of the world," he says, "but we want to build a new future." Serdar rejects the notion that he is being groomed to take his father's spot. "He has a lot of respect for his dad, and the history of Cyprus that he represents," says Kudret Akay, a childhood friend and sociologist. "But he doesn't compare himself to him." Serdar is more relaxed...
...debated going to school with his brother, but chose Harvard over Cambridge out of what he describes as a “melodramatic” notion that this college would be more exciting...
...time when the Ivy Presidents talked of changes that might reduce the overall competitiveness of the league’s teams, the Harvard women’s hockey team served as a clear counterexample to the notion that national ambitions destroy the student-athlete experience. No ECAC team had more players earn league All-Academic honors. Few Harvard teams had ever worked as hard in the offseason or had as much fun, whether they were third-line freshmen or seasoned veterans...
Like Lowell’s reforms 30 years earlier, the Redbook—which quickly became a bestseller—had a ripple effect on the nation’s universities, leading to widespread acceptance of the notion that the academic institution could be a vehicle for social egalitarianism...