Word: notions
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John Ehrlichman's latest effort, Witness to Power, fits right into the pattern established by previous "Nixon years" memoirs. The book's very title reflects Ehrlichman's notion of his own historical importance. In his mind, he is no mere former White House side and political back, but a "witness to power," a man privileged by history to share the secrets of national leadership. Unfortunately for Ehrlichman, there really isn't very much in the book to support his inflated self-image. To begin with, he is obliged to admit that Nixon--like most of the American public--never stopped...
...only is expensive but can result in a muscle-bound product too overburdened to accomplish what it was designed to do. The Navy's F-18 "Hornet" fighter-bomber, for example, was proposed as a small, low-cost aircraft to complement the $36 million F14. Congress bought the notion in 1975, after being told that each plane would eventually cost about $16 million. They are now priced at $32 million each. Much of the added cost and delay is due to improvements made in the Star Wars radar and guided missile control system designed to allow the plane...
...Reagan Administration's performance in the AT&T case should bely the popular yet simplistic notion that the Reaganites are the unthinking rubber-stamps of big business. Even by "populist" standards, the Reagan people did an impressive job. It took considerable and skillfully-applied pressure to force AT&T out of its comfortable monopolistic position, especially since the company seemed likely to win the lawsuit it had spent an estimated $360 million and seven years defending. A few years ago, the Carter Administration had offered to drop the AT&T case if Bell sold off merely two or three operating...
...SUCCESS OF THE new outlook rests on a rejection of the simplistic belief that "bigness is badness," a notion that has haunted Americans since populists like William Jennings Bryan and woodrow Wilson fired anti-business sentiment in the early part of the century. Instead, the intellectual underpinnings of Baxter's policies recall the more sophisticated views of Teddy Roosevelt, who argued that the importance of the Northern Securities Case lay not in breaking up the size of the proposed corporation but in showing that "the most powerful men in this country were held to accountability before...
...painter carried his culture in one portable labyrinth on his back, as if he were a rambling snail, it was Kandinsky. And while he did not invent abstract art on his own (as he and his admirers were given to claim), he certainly did more to promote the notion of ideal abstraction, in those distant years before World War I, than any other European artist...