Word: notions
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Craig Norberg, a founder of the men's self-help group RAVEN (Rape and Violence End Now) in St. Louis, says the typical spouse beater is unable to cope with the traditional notion of masculinity. "Not maleness, but the traditional male role, which requires men to be stoic. It requires men to not need intimacy, to be in control, to be the 'big wheel,' and when there is a problem to 'give 'em hell.' The difficulty is that nine out of ten men fail at that list, at least in their own judgment...
...factors in making the system more responsive to victims is a better understanding of why people rape. The old image of a man's succumbing to uncontrollable (and, to many, understandable) lust, enticed by a provocative woman wearing sexy clothes, is fading, as is the notion that women falsely cry rape...
There is considerable, and very understandable, resistance in the Administration to the notion that West European political forces should determine American military actions. How far can we let European fears push us? The answer, alas, is quite far indeed when the weapons in question are to be installed on European real estate. Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been admirably stalwart in his support of U.S. arms-control policy and rearmament efforts alike. If some further adjustment of the U.S. negotiating position would help him keep his domestic opposition at bay, then it makes sense to give...
There are other consequences. If the whole world is like me, then certain conflicts become incomprehensible; the very notion of intractability becomes paradoxical. When the U.S. embassy in Tehran is taken over, Americans are bewildered. What does the Ayatullah want? The U.S. Government sends envoys to find out what token or signal or symbolic gesture might satisfy Iran. It is impossible to believe that the Ayatullah wants exactly what he says he wants: the head of the Shah. Things are not done that way any more in the West (even the Soviet bloc has now taken to pensioning off deposed...
Hall, 52, has explicitly rejected Chéreau's revolutionary premise ("The Ring does not say that to me at all"), but offers in its place only the unremarkable notion that Wagner "elevated a fairy tale into adult myth." In staging the production, Hall said, he would try to follow closely the composer's own detailed stage directions to return to a romantic Ring. This faithfulness to the original-what the Germans call Werktreue-is admirable and, in this day of extravagant operatic reinterpretations, almost avantgarde...