Word: notionalism
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...study of writers from Jonathan Edwards in the 18th century to Abraham Lincoln in the 19th to Lionel Trilling in the 20th, inspire Americans to revisit some of our oldest ideas and remember a time when we could speak of a "civil religion" without irony, when the notion of sacrifice for country didn't seem confined to Spielberg-Hanks movies...
...challenge his society’s ideals or the parameters of its concepts of propriety. And although Udé’s exhibit certainly does qualify as questionable—based on its seemingly gratuitously pornographic content and its direct confrontations with modern society’s notion of beauty and normality—his pieces are intellectually provocative and pose worthy questions...
...proudly wanted to go to Vietnam, because of the nobility in the notion that we could help a country to be free, to be democratic,” Kerry said of his decision to go to Vietnam...
...anthropocentric view of the scientific world. More than half the awardees work directly on questions about humans. But many of America's best scientists are not studying human-centered questions. Why no scientists whose research focuses primarily on plants or fungi? Why no inorganic chemists? There is a persistent notion that the science that most directly applies to humans is intellectually superior to less human-centered endeavors. Your unrepresentative cross section of scientists is symptomatic of society's failure to value all of science. TERRY O'BRIEN Pitman...
...goals so much as about the manner of accomplishing them. Powell is a multilateralist; other Bush advisers are unilateralists. He's internationalist; they're America first. If you wanted to put a label on Powell's foreign outlook, you could call it "compassionate conservatism"; the others share the second notion but not the first. He is often seen as the Administration's force of moderation, charged with checking its more extreme enthusiasms. Even when winning, he seems to prevail against the tide. Though a star of global magnitude, he is the one doing the saluting...