Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steve Brooks summed up the emotions and friendships that made the '68 crew: "My memories are such that the notion of growing old is best wrapped up in the fact that I'll never be able to do all that again...
Hite, whose first book, a report on female sexuality, attracted widespread attention by concluding that only 30 per cent of women have orgasm during intercourse, argued against the notion that male and female roles are biologically determined and therefore unchangeable. She noted that mostly male reviewers have attacked her current book, and speculated that her conclusions may be upsetting because "we like to build our lives around a biological base...
...should be emphasized that in no way have we attempted to argue for or against preferential minority representation on the council. For the very notion of what constitutes an "oppressed minority" at Harvard is itself open to question as white gays and women, Asians, non-Black Hispanics, and middle-class Blacks conveniently pimp off the legitimate claims of redress made by the Black poor. "Third World"-ism here functions as a self-serving rhetorical device to obscure crucial historical differences and advance the interests of non-black minorities...
Harvard researchers are concerned also with federal legislation that would amend the federal Animal Welfare Act to define pain more broadly. "The notion that everything is painful is an erroneous concept," Barger said. "If the animals suffer we can't do the experiments...
...deploring crowded cities and their lack of open space, planners have overlooked for decades this notion of returning the streets to a variety of human uses. The now no-longer modern movement in architecture and city planning attempted to resolve the conflict between cars and people by abolishing the street altogether. The modern ideal was Le Corbusier's dream of The Radiant City, which consisted of skyscrapers spaced far apart in a huge park, pierced by superhighways. The trouble was, of course, that the park too easily turned into a parking lot. The concept, which guided much urban renewal...