Word: notionalism
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...Pique Leading Republican politicians reacted angrily after the country lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission. "It is an affront to the whole notion of human rights," said Dick Armey, majority leader of the House of Representatives. Their ire increased when the U.S. lost its seat on another important committee, the 13-member International Narcotics Control Board. The House voted to withhold payment of $244 million in back dues the U.S. owes to the U.N. unless the country is reinstated to the human rights panel when seats are next contested...
...them to murderous fury--an understanding that could help others avoid such atrocities in the future. Almost all the shooters were expressing rage, either against a particular person for a particular affront or, more often, against a whole cohort of bullying classmates. Some of their stories confirm the notion that school shootings are a contagion, that the perpetrators are imitating the gross acts of carnage they've seen reported in other places. On the day that he brought to school a .25-cal. semiautomatic handgun that he had stolen from his grandfather's desk drawer, Brazill boasted to a classmate...
...evil incarnate” into which we can dump the McVeighs of the world might be attractive to those who think that the world is slowly chugging toward the Age of Aquarius, but it hardly squares with the long and bloody experience of human history. Neither does the notion, so prized by the various -ologists who natter to Newsweek about their experience with sociopaths, that if only we can do away with childhood traumas and nasty intolerant religions, and maybe get more fluoride into the drinking water, then everything is gonna be all right—rockabye...
...discovery that the way we express ourselves in language, even at an early age, can foretell how long we'll live and how vulnerable we'll be to Alzheimer's decades down the line. Indeed, Snowdon's latest finding, scheduled to be announced this week, reinforces that notion. After analyzing short autobiographies of almost 200 nuns, written when they first took holy orders, he found that the sisters who had expressed the most positive emotions in their writing as girls ended up living longest, and that those on the road to Alzheimer's expressed fewer and fewer positive emotions...
...action musical to be a box-office smash was Grease, in 1978. Since then, only animated features like Beauty and the Beast have put fannies in the seats and songs on the Top 40. And lately, even the cartoons are doing without a lot of new songs. Today the notion of people opening their mouths to sing their hearts out is as anachronistic as speaking in iambic pentameter...