Word: notions
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...quotes Queen Victoria; the weeks at sea as the foreign offices indulge in truculent communiqués and atavistic displays of national plumage. (The long interval between the patriotic eruption and the moment of actual contact also opens up room for negotiation.) A world apocalyptically armed has absorbed the notion that there will not be much safe territory in wars of the future: the war will fall out of the sky one afternoon and land on J.C. Penney's. But in the Falklands, we have a war-if it came to that-that would presumably be conducted in what...
...President's package of and cuts, for instance, reflects his peculiarly static notion of equal opportunity, his Administration contends that the government's responsibility to defend everyone's right to attend college does not translate to a responsibility to pay for it. The evaporation of federal affirmative action codes thus represents not Administration confidence that private institutions will voluntarily seek diversity, as Rosovsky's report would suggest. Rather, it suggests a fundamentally flawed view of equality. In that version, rich and poor have equal education privileges--though the latter cannot pay-and white and Black have similarly equal rights...
Perhaps films, like the rest of society, are beginning "to move beyond the notion that homosexuality is an illness rather than a choice" [March 22]. But there is no reason to think this is progress...
...object of an ideological tug-of-war in the Politburo. Party Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, a hard-liner who died last January, is believed to have done his best to block the production, while Brezhnev Protege Konstantin Chernenko apparently intervened to save the play. As if to dispel any notion that the leadership was divided in its feelings, virtually the entire top rung of the Politburo, including Brezhnev, showed up for a performance early last month. In what may be the start of a period of transition, Shatrov's courageous play is a sign that some voices are speaking...
...hallmark of literary modernism is the notion that readers must earn their places at the feet of the masters. Serious art requires extended initiations; Finnegans Wake is not for the fainthearted, nor will Proust reward the impatient. Isaac Bashevis Singer, 77, began writing at about the time that this avant-garde assumption was hardening into orthodoxy, and somehow he never got the message. He went on with his work under the illusion that authors were still required to prove themselves to their audiences, and not the reverse. He told stories as if daring any of his listeners...