Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like the term politics, a word that opened too easily onto whole vistas of abandoned ideals and fishy dealings, something he was sensitive about as a businessman accused of bootlegging and stock manipulations. What Joe preferred was the more sanitary phrase public service. All the same, Joe's main notion of public service was the kind that gets you a seat in Congress and then a desk in the Oval Office. So when it came to choosing their lifework, Kennedy's sons had no options. Long before voters ever heard of Jack, Bobby or Ted, their father aimed them...
Drabinsky is a chastened, drastically scaled-down mogul now. Yet he is eager to dispel any notion that he's on the run ("Canada is not a penalty; I'm proud of Canada") or that his creative life is over. He says he's developing a TV series that would be shot partly in New York City and is consulting on two "destination entertainment-cultural developments" being planned in Ontario. The legal morass he faces is "draining, emotionally and fiscally," he admits. "But my spirit is good." It will have...
...problem. "I hope it will show people there is a process for working things out," she said in 1995. "To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us." It's a quaint notion, perhaps more easily received in her father's time than our own. Caroline's greatest public service has come in trying to revive...
...from inheriting. The lives of my family had swirled around the river; my grandfather was a fisherman; that's where families gathered. I discovered that connection. But then there was a larger connection. It seemed that every community on the river had lost touch with it and with the notion that the river was their home. The greatest single tragedy on the Hudson is that hundreds of years of history are disappearing. It's like burning down a museum or trashing a library. The loss is devastating and profound...
Reforming the old posse seems to have lit a spark under its leader as well. Onstage recently, before three generations of Bruce fans at the Wuhlheide, a luminous outdoor amphitheater in the middle of a forest in eastern Berlin, Springsteen performed two shows that put a lie to the notion that 49-going-on-50 is too old to rock 'n' roll. The setting was soaked with history. Back in 1988, barely 18 months before the Wall came down, Springsteen and the band played one of the largest and most dramatic rock concerts ever. When Springsteen introduced Bob Dylan...