Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hite is not alone in observing the demise of the notion that love " 'tis woman's whole existence," as Byron once put it. "The old female tendency to put all her eggs in the love basket has been muted," says Columnist Ellen Goodman. One by-product of this adjustment, thinks Goodman, is greater reliance by women on other women for friendship -- an observation that accords with Hite's. Psychologist Carin Rubenstein, co-author of the Redbook study, also finds this trend striking. "I've heard women say, 'Maybe I should date my husband and live with my best friend...
...notion of expanding American military aid is even more ridiculous. There is simply no such thing as a Third World military establishment which is genuinely interested in democracy; to call them fascistic would be overly generous. To stabilize the Philippine government by giving more money to its military, then, would be like trying to cure a cold by spending a night in the rain...
...LEADING critic of contemporary liberal education, Allan Bloom, has railed against such historicism. He decries the notion that man's being is essentially historical, and his work never transcendent. It will not please him that great books will be taught by the historians of Robinson Hall...
...notion that people possess certain inalienable rights, even in the conduct of their familial affairs, is dismissed as a "poetic" musing by this Supreme Court nominee. Thus, for instance, the Constitution--despite its prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment"--does not forbid the sterilization of prisoners...
...corollary to the notion that the crazy state is incompetent is the notion that it must ultimately self-destruct. Americans keep waiting for that to happen to the mullahs, the Sandinistas and the rest of the world's zealots. It is a wan hope. This century has not been kind to the notion that fanaticism must collapse from within. Generally, the crazy state does not self-destruct. On the contrary, it must be destroyed from without: Hitler by the Allies, the Khmer Rouge by Viet Nam, Idi Amin by Tanzania. (In his last years Stalin was no less irrational than...