Word: notionalism
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When great nations have grand plans, the little people know to run for cover. In the early '50s, Americans had the notion to save Vietnam from communism; by the end of their crusade, 2 million Vietnamese were dead. In the 1930s, Australian settlers ruled that half-caste Aborigines were to be removed from their homes and raised by whites; this policy of eugenics by abduction, which continued until 1970, left generations of indigenous people literally and culturally orphaned. In each case, white people pursued social experiments they considered noble, and darker people suffered...
...Harvard officials beg to differ. Sports media spokesperson John P. Veneziano scoffed at the notion The Game might be called...
Marcel A.Q. LaFlamme ’04, the public relations chair of BGLTSA, said that the current housing policies were objectionable because they were based on an overly simplistic notion of gender...
...Brand extension," as it is called, means using the reputation of an established product to help peddle a new one. There is a certain logic to the notion that if Kleeneze is a good laundry detergent, then a dishwasher detergent named Kleeneze will be good too. But the power of brand extension operates more on a subrational level of sheer name recognition. The notion that Jones Jr. will make a good Senator because Jones Sr. did is less a rational assumption than a primitive instinct...
...jerk” round began, Mondragon prepared to pick up the two kettlebells in tandem. He had been practicing at home with kettlebells of two different weights, he said, so he had no notion of how he would perform...