Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notion of ours as a generation with fewer opportunities for financial success than our parents is not entirely exaggerated. Their realism has become our own private neurosis. Don't say career, kids, say Weenie Barn. But The Twenty-Something American Dream contradicts the prevailing image of twenty-somethings as a generation of impoverished bohemians. Having heard "give me liberty or give me death" in many a fifth grade history class, some of us may have dreamed, however foolishly, of one day being the ones up against the wall when the revolution came...
...threw himself into the quagmire with a 1971 article in the Atlantic Monthly. He wrote that because economic status depends in good measure on IQ, which he believed was largely determined by genes, a true meritocracy, such as America sought to be, would develop a hereditary upper class, a notion the book elaborates into an emerging "cognitive elite." Before long, his classes at Harvard were being disrupted by student protesters...
Brewer, who began the debate, said Black professors have no obligation to provide extra help to Black students. Often, the notion of "special obligation" leads people to belittle Black ability, he added...
Unfortunately, as cliched as this notion sounds, it faces serious opposition. Strategists recognize that in an environment of severe public disenchantment with Congress, most challengers' dominant strategies are to vilify Washington's system and all those associated with it. Calls for reform from both incumbents and challengers, in comparison, sound weak and identify the candidate too much with legitimizing an unpopular and undesirable institution...
Some who played with him charge that Cole would cheat in tournament bridge play. Bayonne, however, dismisses that notion. "When you're real brash, that sometimes is taken for poor ethics," he says...