Word: notionalism
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...social outlet at this school. During our last four years here the alternative social clubs—including Greek organizations—have increased in membership while their presence on campus has expanded significantly. This should not give Gross cause for alarm. These new, less elitist organizations challenge the notion that social lives belong to the few and the privileged...
...with the new science cluster, he says, “there was some notion of fortifying things in that direction...
...that is shriveling: the Big America of Rust Belt manufacturing and trade unions. Entrepreneurial America--the immigrant grocers, the hi-tech start-ups in Sun Belt garages, the source of most economic growth--doesn't need the additional burden of finding and securing health plans for its workers. The notion of offering "health security" to the 41 million Americans who don't have insurance--an idea that every Democrat is likely to endorse in one form or another--can be done more simply (and for about one-third of Gephardt's $247 billion a year) by offering tax credits...
...West, some art-world folks still cling to the romantic notion of the solitary, idealistic, uncompromising (and uncompromised) artist. Looking characteristically frazzled and unkempt in a gray Mr. DOB T shirt, baggy jeans and green suede Pumas, Murakami says, "In the West I am being criticized for being too commercial." Indeed, a recent review of Murakami's Serpentine show in the Guardian newspaper accused the artist of being little more than a huckster: "There's no sign of any internal critique, just a lot of very high-class production values ... not much art here, either?only a feeble sort...
...turn each thought into a topic sentence or its subsidiary, and to organize them in an arbitrary linear structure which undercuts the extent of their coherence. What perverse monsters we are to do this for a grade. It’s bad enough that we distort the world with notions of cause and effect, presence and absence, positive and negative, either and or—conventions of thought which become fetters when naturalized as logic. After the organic joy of thought has been exterminated, we drive the mental engine onward through the formal ruse of argument. Our very ideas...