Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stories also recall the notion that artists are doomed to live lives of extraordinary vividity. He tells of sneaking into a village autopsy and downing the bottle of brandy provided to steady the nerves of the doctor and his friends. "When it was all over, I was blind drunk and had to be carried home, to be punished not only for drunkenness but for what my father called sadism." A penchant for guns developed early; Bunuel taught himself to use his father's pistol by asking his best friend to serve as target. Despite our desire to correlate these events...
...specific personalities. Thus Bunuel focuses less on the creative theories of the group than on their fascinating social energies--the excommunications and other rites. The principal weapon of their revolution, he says, was scandal; this is how the bourgeois revolts against the bourgeois. The Surrealist attack "on the notion of work, that cornerstone of bourgeois civilization, as something sacrosanct," and the Surrealist distrust of the rational may lie behind Bunuel's refusal to evaluate the Surrealist's work...
...Geneva, even Kvitsinsky scoffed at the notion that the British and French forces were any match for the SS-20s; comparing them was, he said, "a sandbox exercise." Nitze noted wryly that Kvitsinsky's apparent contempt for the British and French weapons negated the Soviets' own argument for counting them in an agreement. In another unguarded but revealing moment, Kvitsinsky blurted out the real purpose of the Soviet position: "You have no business in Europe...
...boost tourism, but so far the U.S. has balked at picking up a tab that could go as high as $90 million. The airport presents an uncomfortable irony. When it was being built by the Cubans, the U.S. condemned it as being essentially for military use and ridiculed the notion that Grenada's motive was to develop tourism. Now the U.S. is being asked to finish what the Cubans started. Says a U.S. official on the island: "Our mission is to get Grenada back on track. But it's not a question of the U.S. coming in here...
...make a judgement based on a critical approach. The various departments and the Administration cannot be oblivious to the large undergraduate population of this college. To consider the powers-that-be as people who are looking only for prestige and recognition cannot be true. Yet there persists the notion that the capabilities of doing good research and teaching oppose each other as factors of 'prestige' vs. 'loss of scholarly recognition' in the process of tenure. This idea links up with the fact that we, as students, are essentially left out of the whole deal. Our role as responsible individuals...