Word: notionalism
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...completely antagonize the notion that such a group avoid making political power its main agenda,” Kameron A. Collins ’09 wrote in an e-mail to BGLTSA-open. “If trying to fight for cultural capital isn’t political, I don’t know what...
...responsibility for its messages,” he said. Audience members said that the documentary made them realize how deeply certain values had been ingrained in them. “I was conditioned to believe in true love and love at first sight without fail—an idealized notion of romance,” said J. Alex Mays ’12. The screening and discussion was sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and the Race Relations Proctors. Brendan W. Randall ’88, a race relations proctor for Ivy Yard, said...
...criminal trial underway in Sweden is testing a very American notion: that artifacts that carry a copyright should not simply be lifted or stolen - that their use requires permission and compensation. That definition of intellectual property may appear almost quaint in these days when it is easy to find almost anything on the Internet and just as simple to download. But the founders of ThePirateBay.org - three geeky Swedish would-be cultural revolutionaries who were funded in part by user donations - are in the process of finding out whether they face prison time for facilitating that process for their users...
Fisher, Amy • intention of to defy notion that there are no second acts in American lives by embarking on career involving a stripping pole...
...This is not a mere logic game. If there is a single "big idea" to have emerged in the first decade of the new millennium - from the September 11 attacks to the financial crash - it is the notion of the "black swan," the danger posed by difficult to predict, high-impact events. The short history of nuclear weapons is already scattered with unplanned and seemingly improbable incidents that suggest we feel more secure than we should. In 1995, a communication failure with the Russian Embassy led the Russian military to believe that a weather rocket launched off the coast...