Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White admits, "It's not always a very good way to work--developing a notion of kids as deviations from adulthood. If anything, adults are deviated kids...
Accompanying this trend toward conserving resources is a newly discovered faith in the effectiveness of training foreign students at Harvard. "In the 60s we had the notion that we knew the answer and that we could make a difference. Now we are beginning to think that the most efficient way (of training Third World students) is to have them come here," Lodge adds...
...fails to convince them to abide by the Principles. This recommendation differed from the University's present practice in three respects. It called for the use of the Sullivan Principles as a screen on investments rather than merely as a standard to be applied after purchase. It rejected the notion that standards other than the Sullivan Principles, particularly internal company codes, provided appropriate means for judging corporate behavior in South Africa. And it included fixed time limits on attempts and influencing companies...
Chaplin was an improviser. He would order up a huge set or an elaborate mechanical prop (like The Floorwalker's escalator, the comic potentials of which we watch him explore) with only the vaguest notion of what he might do with it. Then, with all his co-workers assembled, with Chaplin doing detailed demonstrations of their pantomime ("he became me," Cherrill remembers) and working up the long, intricate comic lines that are his art's hallmark, the cameras would turn. And turn. And turn some more, through hundreds of takes. For it was only by studying what Chaplin...
...Darth Vader. How ever, Johnson argues, the belief that physical reality depended on where one stood was smuggled by social radicals into the realm of moral truth. The author's link age to the gentle mathematician is shaky, but his point is strong: moral relativism, the notion that good and evil are matters merely of point of view, is itself an evil...