Word: notionally
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...think we ought to revive the forgotten notion of a liberal arts education, premised on the belief that through education we can and should be able to transcend ourselves, our communities, our time and our place to wander freely and imaginatively across time and place. Vulgar multiculturalism promotes the perverse notion that pride comes about from fencing oneself in, from staking a territory and protecting it from cultural invaders. The idea of a liberal education rejects this deep cynicism and loss of faith in the self. As Wynton Marsalis once commented on his philosophy of music: "Everybody has two heritages...
...Stopping Violence, an Atlanta clinic established to help men face their battering problems. So long as a woman was considered her husband's legal property, police and the courts were unable to prevent -- and unwilling to punish -- domestic assaults. Notes N.Y.U. law professor Holly Maguigan: "We talk about the notion of the rule of thumb, forgetting that it had to do with the restriction on a man's right to use a weapon against his wife: he couldn't use a rod that was larger than his thumb." In 1874 North Carolina became one of the first states to limit...
...some shared mental disability that prevents them from acting rationally. Social liberals, says N.Y.U.'s Maguigan, typically explain male violence in terms of social or economic pressures. Female violence, on the other hand, is examined in psychological terms. "They look to what's wrong with her and reinforce a notion that women who use violence are, per se, unreasonable, that something must be wrong with her because she's not acting like a good woman, in the way that women are socialized to behave...
Clinton's package includes a wish list of other reforms that could reduce waste and inefficiency, but it remains to be seen which ones he will fight for. His aides support, for example, the standardization of more than 1,500 kinds of insurance forms currently in use, a notion previously endorsed by Louis Sullivan, Bush's Secretary of Health and Human Services. The measure could reduce wasteful billing costs and save as much as $4 billion annually...
...African Company of 1820s New York City was, he recounts, harassed and shut down by white authorities who resented its ambition, feared its competition with white theaters (as when the Africans' Richard III was to play opposite Booth's version of the same play) and recoiled from the notion that European classics were within the intellectual grasp of former slaves...