Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...print of page-one articles and the air-time of lead stories, American news media fed McCarthy the publicity he needed. Edwin R. Bayley focuses on that process in his new book, McCarthy and the Press. In a world seemingly vulnerable to media-made images, he offers the comforting notion that today's news reporters are better prepared to combat demagogy...
...anything, centralized bureaucracy is more pervasive than ever in the U.S.S.R. The present leaders have refined and extended the quintessentially Soviet notion of nomenklatura (nomenclature). That is, the Communist Party leadership prerogative to dispense patronage and designate virtually every important manager in every sector of society-from industry to academe, from culture to science, from the customs service to the diplomatic corps. The result, concludes Historian Billington, is "bureaucratic state socialism," in which the party has a permanent monopoly on power...
...teams an entirely new form of international belligerence. Says Gaddis Smith, chairman of Yale's history department: "If one places any emphasis on the legal definition of war, this would be an act of war, just as surely as dropping bombs on a country." Others view the notion of hit teams as an inevitable escalation in the level of terrorism of the past few years. "It's ironic that in this day, this era, people are surprised," says Ray Cline, executive director at Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies. "As an educational exercise for the American public...
Saxon decided to do something about the teaching of algebra. He decided, in fact, to write his own textbook. His notion was simple enough, a readable text requiring the students to do continuous review. Algebra, he points out, is a skill, and like any other, it must be learned thoroughly. In 1979 Saxon came to New York City and tried to sell his idea for an Algebra I text. The conservative world of high school textbook publishers, where new books often tend to be virtual clones of the most successful standard text, abruptly turned him away...
Status, as notion or fact, is inseparable from the human condition. Given the nature of the U.S. as an open society cherishing the premise that anybody is free to rise, a good deal of status chasing was inescapable from the outset. If the chase had indeed rigidified the lines of class in the society, the symbols of status could only have become ever more clear. Reflecting upon that fact, one contemplates the present symbolic (and hierarchical) muddle with a light heart. -By Frank Trippett