Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Informed of the A.R.D.E. claims, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger stated unequivocally that the U.S. had not provided naval assistance. A spokesman for Naval Secretary John Lehman labeled any notion of U.S. Navy involvement "absurd." When asked if any such ship or ships were either operated or supported by the CIA, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane told TIME: "I cannot comment on intelligence operations." As a matter of policy, the CIA refused to confirm, deny or even discuss any of its operations. Nicaragua's neighbors, Honduras and Costa Rica, have the wherewithal to provide naval assistance, but it is unlikely...
...become. Pynchon's attempt to dismiss himself as just a regular guy is charming but a little disturbing, suggesting a weariness with the task of being different. He even includes a sentence that implicitly questions the wisdom of remaining in hiding: "Somewhere I had come up with the notion that one's personal life had nothing to do with fiction, when the truth, as everyone knows, is nearly the direct opposite." This might be taken to mean that Pynchon could pop up on TV at any moment, explaining himself to Donahue or Barbara Walters. But the best...
...were discussing whether another philosopher had enough originally, and [Dreben] said, 'I despise originally,'" she remembers, saying he was combatting "the false notion that a philosopher has to come up with an original idea every other week...
...seems that the Crimson came, to the Union with the incorrect notion that any house sending representatives to greet freshmen did so to provide shoulders for them to cry on. This delusion clouded your reporter's ability to accurately interpret our motives. He only succeeded in perpetuation a misguided image of Mather House. Michael R. Epstein '85 Jonathan A. Lesserson '85 Steven A. Nussbaum...
...could feel it, feel the emptiness and the terror of the emptiness." That terror stalks Everett through seven separate phases, from early childhood to late middle age. After his mother's death in childbirth, young John is raised by maternal grandparents in Michigan. The introverted boy derives his notion of love from medieval romances, and the real world seems a strange, indecipherable place. It will always remain that way. At college, philosophies and theories present themselves, but Everett prefers tangible things: "I can tell you what I do want to do when our discussions get really abstract...