Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sequestering incompatible people on islands, in hotels or at roadside hash houses under duress is one of the hoariest devices known to drama. Vide, The Admirable Crichton, Grand Hotel and The Petrified Forest. The notion is that some transcendent revelation will descend on these characters as they sit and stew. The only revelation to be gleaned from the bulk of Lanford Wilson's plays, starting with The Hot I Baltimore, is that his characters are circusy clones of people originally conceived by William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams and William Inge. Their common plaint is that life has failed them, whereas...
...least one member of the Harvard football team has based his career on the notion that you can never have too many quarterbacks...
...strongly suspected that the submarine was from a Warsaw Pact nation, most probably the Soviet Union, although Moscow scoffed at the notion, calling it a hoax designed to disrupt Scandinavian-Soviet relations. The naval base on Musk Island is Sweden's largest and most sensitive; its radar keeps constant watch over the country's eastern coastline, which faces the Soviet Union in the Baltic Sea. If the vessel were from the Soviet bloc, its probable mission was to gather as many details as possible about the base and the surrounding waters. Washington believes that in the event...
...ADMINISTRATION'S preparations for space warfare serve to undercut United Nations efforts--such as the recently-concluded Unispace '82 conference in Vienna--to set guidelines encouraging the exploration and peaceful use of outer space. Moreover, accepting the notion that America has a "space border" that must be defended like other borders will heighten cold war tensions and increase the possibility of a nuclear war. Worst of all, the resources spent militarizing space will be diverted from more practical and often desperately needed purposes. For instance, science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who predicted a satellite age as early...
...separate agreement with Egypt, to the exclusion of the Palestinians, Jordanians and Syrians. Begin believed that an agreement on the Sinai might come first, with a later accord on "Judea and Samaria." (Begin always referred to the West Bank by the biblical names, I assume to engender the notion that this was the promised land that God himself had given the Jews.) He was not asking for such a procedure now, he said, because it might embarrass Egypt if its leader did not appear to represent the interests of Arabs who were not present. He realized how strongly Sadat would...