Word: notionalism
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...million people. The government cultivates a cult of personality around Kim--citizens are told to treat him as a demigod, and pictures of father and son hang in every public building in Pyongyang--but popular disgruntlement is growing, as North Koreans returning from China's boomtowns dispel any notion that life is better inside the Hermit Kingdom...
...Lives The ghost of murdered conservative leader Pim Fortuyn looms large over the run-up to the Netherlands' Jan. 21 general election. In campaigning, many centrist politicians have adopted his controversial positions on issues like immigration, crime and education. Freedom and Democracy Party leader Gerrit Zalm has embraced the notion that the country can no longer take in immigrants: "The Netherlands is full," he now says in his speeches. Social Democrat leader Wouter Bos is doing a more effective Fortuyn impersonation - "Only Dutch to be taught in our schools" - and is leading in the polls. Ironically, Fortuyn's own party...
John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar, who teaches the popular Literature and Arts Core class “Fairy Tales and Children’s Literature”, says she plans to explore the notion of what it means to “grow up” in our culture by focusing on Alice in Wonderland and Peter...
...audience, watching The Two-Character Play constantly challenges the notion of reality and illusion. At one point, Felice draws a gun with the intention to commit suicide. It is up to the audience to determine whether this crucial moment is real or acted...
This odious notion of racial or sexual determinism is the primary source of conservatives’ objections to diversity senators, as well as to the larger idea of “diversity” as an inherent social good. The assumption that a black person (or white for that matter) has a certain social value, simply because of his or her skin color, is patently racist. If, for example, a black family were denied access to a “restricted” community because it was believed that their moving in would detract from the social value, we would...