Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simon Bolivar's dream of a closely-knit union of Pan-American states faded when only four delegates appeared at his first conference in 1826. The notion persisted, however, and inspired the first American International conference called by the United States fifty years later. That and succeeding conferences failed alike to produce a union, and probably nothing definite of that sort will result from the fifth Pan-American Conference, now in session at Santiago...
...Elie Faure, writer of the greatest history of art of recent years, says: " Picasso was undoubtedly a great criminal, in the sense that he is largely responsible for the muddle (sic) which painting has got into latterly. It is from him chiefly that the younger artists have taken the notion of looking within themselves to interpret the outer world, instead of, like their elders, looking at the outside world to realize themselves. Because oftentimes they are unable to distinguish much of anything within themselves, you know what happens (They get themselves called crazy). That is Picasso's crime...
...handling of singers. He subdues these difficult persons, not by any show of authority and dignity, but with delightful effusions of South Italian blarney. Early in his career he adopted the policy of " small salaries, but sure," and after much display of diplomacy educated his singers to the notion that $100 a week is better when you get it than $500 a week when...
...like Roosevelt or Wilson; he never pretended to be, and he should not be judged according to such lofty standards. He is important and successful as the embodiment of the American idea of humility exalted by homely virtues into the highest eminence. He is the actuality of the schoolboy notion that anybody has a chance to be President...
Since then professions have become more and more numerous. Universities and the idea of a "liberal education" have complieated the choice, until very few complete their college work with any definite ideas of what they want to do when they graduate. They go on with the notion that something evenfually will "turn up", and regard the whole question in the light in which they look upon the selection of a field of concentration. It the field first chosen prove unsuited, it appears a matter comparatively simple to change to another division, for the rules on that point are not very...