Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks Washington has been buzzing with the notion that negotiations of some kind with the guerrillas and their supporters are the only way of avoiding hopeless involvement in a Central American quagmire. The idea, which was promoted by France and Mexico in 1981, has the backing of a number of other West European and Central American governments. It gained further momentum during Pope John Paul II's recent eight-day trip through the region, during which he issued a call for "dialogue" between the adversaries in El Salvador. In principle everyone, including President Reagan, endorses the idea. But everyone...
Vorhauer got the idea for the sponge in 1975, when he was an executive with Chicago-based American Hospital Supply Corp. The notion actually dates back more than 3,000 years to the Egyptians, who used sea sponges soaked in citrus juices, which are slightly spermicidal, as contraceptives. When American Hospital showed little interest in Vorhauer's idea, he resigned and set up a tiny office in Newport Beach, Calif. Says he: "My kitchen was my first...
...come to a matter of character. John Ruskin said that only a good man can make a good artist, but that notion is disproved all the time. Good teaching, however, is another matter. No one knows how virtuous a person Milton was, but the speculation becomes irrelevant when applied to Paradise Lost, which, like every work of art, assumed a life of its own as soon as it was finished. The writer let it go. But the teacher of Paradise Lost cannot let it go; he becomes its life. Whether he sees the work as a brilliant display of versification...
...viewpoint. Didion makes her own position clear, sometimes explicitly, but usually implicitly. Her unflattering portraits of rightist leaders like Robertod' Aubisson, and her constant comparisons of the Salvadoran reality she perceives with the White House's roster view demonstrate her opposition to current U.S. policy. And she mocks the notion that true progress has been made on the human rights front Indeed, she finds a language common to Washington and the Salvadoran Right that has replaced the word "change" with the word "symbol". The solutions is not to make things better, but rather to make them look better. A commission...
...over with now") and looking with great irritation at those of us not ready to ignore or dismiss the various events that argue for a slightly more realistic view. Indeed, those unwilling to follow the standard enthusiastic line on equal rights in America-i.e., those baffled by the notion that the current status of minorities could be widely considered anything but a travesty-such people are labelled cynics, malcontents, subversive...