Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to resist the conclusion that he campaign to secure Harvard's purity by driving the Clubs out is simply a latter day exercise in the Puritanism of our forebears. Like those blue-nosed, grimvisaged zealors, some now cannot abide the notion that any should live by standards others than their own. Persuaded, again, that Truth is finally known (centering this time on equality and non-discrimination) the New Puritans will not rest until their principles are practiced, willy-nilly...
...idea for settling the dispute, advanced by McFarlane, was to turn arms-control negotiations over to a newly appointed "czar" to coordinate policy. Not surprisingly, that notion, especially if the czar reported directly to the President, appealed neither to Shultz nor to Weinberger. Their combined opposition has made the issue a sore point...
...notion of a "Khalistan," a separate Sikh state, remains an unworkable goal; the Sikhs--who represent only 2 percent of the Indian population--could never survive as an independent nation. Too many economic, territorial and population factors run against the murmurs of creating a separate state. Only 40 percent of the Sikhs live in Punjab; the rest are scattered around other parts of the country. To implement the establishment of a separate and solely Sikh nation would only result in massive and traumatizing migrations of non-Sikhs out of Punjab (almost half of the present population there) and of Sikhs...
...that lends support to Sikh separatists, no matter how extreme. But the moderates must lead the way into coming to terms with a changing society. The Sikh community must define for themselves what constitutes being a Sikh in the here and now and not in some romanticized and dangerous notion of seventeeth-century Sikh soldier-saints...
...responsibilities distributed on lines of kinship, ancestry, skin color or religion, the Lebanonization of American politics might lie down the road. And then would come the Orientals, Caribbeans, Africans with other demands. Was ours a nation of separate groups? Or a nation of individual people clinging to the notion that all men are created equal, a nation that chooses the best of its individuals to speak...