Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear now that Jimmy Carter was on to something real and powerful. Americans did feel defensive and dispirited about their nation: cynical about its faded grandeur, alarmed by what felt like the beginnings of economic chaos and despairing of prospects for improvement. The notion of even a quiet national contentment and pride seemed quaint, implausible, slightly foolish...
With his uncanny knack for conveying a sense of some simpler, lovelier, bygone American age, Reagan has encouraged the notion that happy days are here again. "Reagan is our past speaking to us," says Political Historian Garry Wills, "and we want to remember with him." Furthermore, as Britain's weekly Economist noted, "Republicans have no hangups about patriotism." The conservative President in particular has always been fluent and profuse with the imagery and language of conventional, Decoration Day patriotism. Says Frank Quam, a farm-management teacher in Stewartville, Minn.: "Reagan is of that nature, the flag waving, and people...
...handle the tear in the eye anywhere near as well. It's like everything else. It depends on how you do it." New York Governor Mario Cuomo showed in his keynote speech to the convention that the Democrats can convey an uplifting vision of America: his notion is nation as family, in contrast to every-man-for-himself G.O.P. individualism...
...rejects the notion that U.S. weapons have been compromised by their chips. "There is no evidence of any systems performance or reliability problem," insists one company official. "It's simply a question of testing procedures." Sample testing by the Defense Department so far has revealed no defective microcircuits...
Thousands cheered Finally, it would seem, the courts are beginning to accept the notion that discriminates cannot hide behind the right of association. And that might make Harvard's nine final clubs--those bastions of all-male exclusivity--vulnerable to legal action...