Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just did when I said 'subjective reality.' " Adler takes the idea a step further. "Let me give you an example of an erroneous statement: There are three mountains on the Eastern Shore of Maryland more than 5,000 feet high." The students laugh at such an absurd notion. Poking the same index finger on the table, Adler draws the distinction precisely. "A lie," he says, "is the difference between what you say and what you think; an erroneous statement is the difference between what you think and what there...
Ages are to be compared not by numbers but by the best in them. And the best souls in our age pale before the best souls in the past. The decay of respect for the past, the decay of respect for authority, the decay of the notion of the classics -these are the banes...
...have nothing but scorn for the notion of an Islamic bomb. There is no such thing as an Islamic bomb or a "Christian bomb." Any such weapon is a means of terrorizing humanity, and we are against the manufacture and acquisition of nuclear weapons. This is in line with our definition of-and opposition to-terrorism...
...doing so. Unlike most universities. Harvard tenures faculty after an claborate process--which one professor calls "checks and balances"--that begins with departmental nominations, continues with approval by an ad hoc committee and concludes with a final go-ahead from President Bok. Deeply embedded in each stage is the notion that Harvard must maintain its high academic standards with every appointment. Research and professional esteem thus come to play a decisive factor in the selection process--particularly, faculty say, at the stage where outside experts are requested to send to a department blind letters about candidates...
...Back in the 19th century," Wilcox says, there existed at Harvard the idea that "a 17-year-old man was the best judge of what he should take." It seemed a fitting notion in a day when all knowledge was supposedly contained in the infamous five-foot shelf of classics, which began with the Bible and worked its way through the Hellenic myths and Shakespeare, Milton and Faust. Robert Benchley sat in the Harvard Club of Boston after his graduation determined to make his way through the whole 60 inches. He confessed it was nearly impossible, and concluded...