Word: notions
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...College discourages the inter group contact that is the raison d'etre of intellectual diversity. Administrators maintain the preferential lottery largely in the name of the traditions that have grown up around individual Houses. In doing so, though, they subvert a broader tradition: what Epps calls President Lowell's "notion that people from different social classes were to rub shoulders together...
...Mitch Reese reinforced the notion that he never loses big matches, smoothly outclassing Jamie Barrett for win at number four, while Charlie Duffy hung on at number five to upend another Tiger co-captain, Jon Moore...
...former California Governor has long been nurturing the seeds of federalism. But the notion was seized upon last November by those shaping the State of the Union message, in part because it was fine political strategy. Reagan badly needed a vehicle to avoid dwelling on the depressing but pressing problems of budget deficits and unemployment and to regain domination of the political debate. The White House, therefore, beefed up the federalism idea to give the second-act curtain raiser of the Reagan presidency a show-stopping wallop. Says one adviser: "We thought of it as another go-for-broke idea...
...muddle through. Which is as good a way to talk about nuclear weapons as there may be. Before, there was room for complacency: if you didn't change something, it didn't mean that someone else wouldn't sometime in the future, a philosophy buttressed by some ascendant liberal notion that the universe naturally tends toward improvement. The worst miscalculations--the worst cases of callousness or venality rampant--ended in wars. Where people were sacrificed in the name of the prevailing order or orthodoxy. When the war was over, people went back to muddling through--ideologies rose and fell, beliefs...
...might please some to say that FDR was even in college a believer in a society where class privileges were unimportant. A January follow-up editorial on the Union--where apparently high dues had kept membership to about half of all undergraduates--weighs against such a notion, though. "Many men who have no rights to the privileges of the Union are continually seen in the building, particularly in the dining room and at the lunch counter. Members who further this abuse or fail to cooperate in the effort to prevent it are doing as dishonorable an act as the guilty...