Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what about my image of small town America? Perhaps I am a little too naive, a little too romantic in my notion of what the American West should be like. But it seems that it couldn't always have been this homogenous. Yes, Wal-Marts are now ubiquitous, and that Taco Bell chihuahua exhorts people across the nation to eat gorditas, but it wasn't always so. Besides strip malls, chain stores and other such monuments to consumerism, the other factor contributing to the increasing uniformity of America is the combination of cable TV and other forms of media saturation...
...notion of resignation, dismissed as unfair and inconceivable once the overwrought January days had passed, rumbled back into the national conversation. Even before the report arrived, lawmakers were surprised by how quickly the mood was changing. They came back to work last week after spending some time at home and getting an earful. Real people, the lawmakers learned, were sick and tired of turning off the TV when the news came on and hearing their kids use "Monica" like a cussword. They kept asking each other how they were supposed to explain to their constituents why the President...
...possible explanations for Clinton's obtuseness, including the notion that he's some sort of addict, don't go over well at the construction site. A former Coast Guard sailor wonders if the President isn't a narcissist, prone to delusions of invulnerability. Someone else thinks he wanted to get caught--the revenge of his guilty Baptist conscience, perhaps. Maybe all the talk at church of a final heavenly judgment compelled him to want to speed up the process...
...speech that night, the president revealed a man who regretted only that he had been caught and who bristled at the notion that his actions would be subject to review and criticism. His rebuke of the Independent Counsel in that speech was a warning to the nation as a whole...
...place to figure it out. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes said to me, "When I went to college, I felt privileged. I expected to be changed, and they expected to change me. That was the deal, and the whole culture went along with that deal." "The notion of in loco parentis," he said, "was absolute. College was supposed to finish the job my parents had started...