Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow, the ridiculous and extravagant nonsense of carefully lettered signs, declaring the socialist progress that has been visited on Kabul. But in a choice few places, and Nicaragua is one, they are the reflection--not the source, the reflection-of something very different. Of unity, not control; of the notion that here is something right and proper that most people can and do support, in the general if not the specific. That is why you should not wince when you watch these two films. One-sided propganda they are, but some questions, in some parts of this earth, only have...
...establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. This is the crux, and the main sticking point, of the whole plan. The Israelis reject the notion of an independent Palestinian state out of hand. The Palestinians insist on statehood as the sine qua non of any peace agreement. One possible compromise: the P.L.O. might conceivably accept an entity in confederation with Jordan in order to get around Israeli objections, but only after receiving solid assurances of full and independent statehood in the future...
...something that no Arab country apart from Egypt has ever granted. The Israelis endorse peaceful coexistence, but they insist that the state of Israel must be mentioned by name in any declaration of that principle. On the Arab side, only the Libyans and the P.L.O. hard-liners reject the notion of peaceful coexistence with Israel...
Education's failing in this respect, says Giamatti has been to propound the notion of research "free of values...a world where ideas are...freeze-dried commodities." He continues, "Our problem as a society is that we have fostered disconnectedness: we have created a false separateness between social research and policy making, thinking and politics, ideas and power." Giamatti's sole obsession in these essays--aside from a peculiar affinity to the word "assert," which he uses about once per page--seems to be the importance of education in developing a sense of citizenship. Referring to Plato's Statesman...
OVER THE YEARS, of course, anger against Wodehouse subsided somewhat, and his books (which at one point were banned in much of England and the U.S.) became once again popular. But, as Sproat writes, the notion that he had betrayed his country "followed him to his grave." As late as 1972, when Sproat tried to recommend Wodehouse (who during his life published more than 90 books) for knighthood, then-Prime Minister Edward Heath refused to back...