Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their willingness to undermine the Court to achieve victory on this single issue, proponents of these bills are using a curiously radical means towards a conservative end. Other Congressional proposals that would define the constitutional meaning of "life" as beginning at conception would do equal damage to the notion of fundamental...
...presented Black history as the terrible epic of constant war between Black and white. It was a history of conflict. King had accepted Hegel's view of history, namely, that there was a dialectical process of progress and growth through pain. But the dialectical idea for King, the notion of struggle, was also taken over from Gandhi and Thoreau, especially from the latter's essay on Civil Disobedience. King believed in struggle, in a kind of war, if you like, but a war in Gandhi's terms, "without violence." But King's view of history required that the large mass...
...simply is no practical alternative to their present stages" Perhaps Nixon is indeed right to suggest potential pragmatic and philosophical pitfalls which foreign policies face in trying to follow idealistic, human rights based programs. But in the process, indeed throughout the book, Nixon betrays the condescension implicit in the notion that some peoples are somehow "unprepared" for democracy or that well, yellow people are for some reason thicker-skinned than whites and can therefore bear injustice and suffering better...
Unlike Lincoln, Reagan does not seem tired inside. He still rejects Carter's notion of a paralyzing national malaise. The world does not view him as weak, though it often regards him as stubborn and ignorant. The prevailing wisdom among the fallible Washington seers is that Reagan faces more hazards in his third year than any recent President. His programs have not worked so far. An international banking crisis looms, along with rising fears about nuclear...
...sensual suffocation of these grand clothes was modified and ventilated for outdoor wear. The looseness of a mohair duster, the easy lines of a woman's blueserge bicycle suit, even a white wool polo coat from Brooks Brothers, all prefigure a less restrictive notion of sophistication. The summer whites of Newport are as dazzling to a contemporary eye as a violet satin costume brocaded in gold and silver, supposedly worn by Sarah Bernhardt...