Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole world directs its attention, however briefly, to those to whom the earth will soon belong, what kind of leadership can the United States offer? Americans cherish the notion that they cherish their children, but there's woeful evidence to the contrary. Each year thousands of American babies are born premature and underweight, in a country torn by neither war nor famine. The U.S. is one of only four countries -- with Iran, Iraq and Bangladesh -- that still execute juvenile offenders. And nearly 1 in 4 American children under age six lives in poverty. Congressmen wrestling with budget cuts, policymakers musing...
...this is accompanied by a new isolationism, the notion that with the collapse of communism, there is not much left for America to do in the world, that the U.S. should circle the wagons. There is also economic isolationism, otherwise known as protectionism. And there is the isolationism of despair: the conviction that in winning the cold war, we spent so much of our treasure that we no longer have the means to exert much influence abroad -- that the U.S. is increasingly "irrelevant...
...must begin with a recognition that the American concept and practice of freedom have been distorted. To the founders it was self-evident that freedom required obligations; in the past half-century the notion of a citizen's obligations virtually disappeared from public discourse, while "duty" came to be almost a code word for fascism. About the only thing that is talked about, demanded, praised is citizen's rights (some of them pretty exotic). The Second American Century must involve a new balance of rights and obligations...
...That is not a notion that corresponds with a successful reality of the past," Freedman said...
This courtly man doesn't stay depressed for long, though. He has seen too much. Life, to him, is an endless search, one long lesson. He is proof of the notion that every artist is a scientist, obsessed with discovering how things and people work. His eyes go electric as he skims the subjects of his forthcoming photography book. "I've got a real lot of beautiful industrial landscapes. And I'm real interested in dental hygiene, so I'm going to have a chapter on that. Maybe something on fictitious archaeology: I'd like to bury some things, then...