Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Black student, I have lost faith in the notion that the police will follow their responsibility of serving and protecting me. When I walk back to my dorm from a friend's room at 3 a.m., the police car that circles the Yard is not a reassuring presence. I wonder if I will be the first "suspect" the police grab when they respond to a crime. If the police are so unprofessional that they harass innocent Black students, how can we rely on them to protect the Harvard community as a whole...
Backbeat has an attractive cast and a passionate rock-'n'-roll score (played by some top young musicians). But with its attention to the posturings of Lennon and the untalented Stu, the movie succumbs to the post-Madonna notion that pop success is all a matter of attitude. That's so misguided. If you have any doubt, listen to the songs...
...Beauty opened, it set an all-time Broadway record for a single day's ticket sales: $603,494, vs. the $548,460 racked up in 1993 by The Who's Tommy. By week's end the advance sales exceeded $10 million. Nevertheless, last week chairman Michael Eisner floated the notion of starting evening shows at 7:30 instead of 8. Aides pointed out pitfalls: there may be a lot of latecomers, and the schedule change might imply that Beauty is not for grownups. Regardless of when it plays, 2 1/2 hours is a long time for children to sit still...
...most things. The most heinous acts get a round of applause on the talk-show circuit, as if confession were a substitute for contrition. Forgiveness has its place, but so does retribution. There's a way well short of lashing an American abroad to restore the notion that acts have consequences, and it could have started in the Senate with two fewer stars for Admiral Kelso...
...logic. The implication that there is some sort of "crisis" lurking in the wings is similarly bogus. You have only to look at recent history to see there is no market that has a monopoly on risk or fails to appeal to human greed. What is troublesome is the notion that we must be protected from ourselves and cannot bear the consequences of our individual decisions. The last thing we need is ill-informed legislators decreeing some misguided form of capitalism in which people can take risks but are bailed out by the rest of the populace if things...