Word: notions
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More intriguing was the notion that mighty Citicorp was studying ways to acquire all or part of BankAmerica. Until a new California law takes effect in 1991, an outright buyout of BankAmerica by the New York institution is impossible. Federal bank regulators would also have to approve the move. Just as important, it hardly seemed likely that Tom Clausen had come out of retirement merely to preside over the sale of the empire that he did so much to build...
...amount of concern showered on Chambers and his family further emphasizes the notion that he was the victim, not Levin. The poor chap never got enough attention from his parents, the tabloids tell us; and, what's more, he had the grave misfortune of shuttling from prep school to prep school because of failing grades. Not only did the New York Post run a front page picture depicting the grief of his parents, but it also gave top billing to an interview in which Chambers said, "I have no ill feeling toward Jennifer or her family...
...Bailey, who is spending the fall at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, contests the notion that he is `just' a Cicero scholar. "I sometimes get slightly irritated when people act as if Cicero is all that I'm interested in. I think I've published articles on nearly all of the major figures of the period," the scholar says, adding that just last year he published a work about Horace, a poet of the Golden Age of Roman literature...
Still, if poetry and politics are bedfellows in certain ways, the bed is rarely comfortable. Poetry has none of the active power that politics has. It can protest or commemorate a war but cannot cause one. Assessing the poet's responsibility in the world, Allen Tate derided the romantic notion that if poets "behaved differently . . . the international political order itself would not have been in jeopardy and we should not perhaps be at international loggerheads today." Poets do not have that sort of influence, and undoubtedly would abuse it if they...
...stated aim of Harvard's five-year-old Core Curriculum is to introduce students to different "modes of learning" or academic approaches. Its authors eschewed the notion that students should be required to master a basic body of knowledge--or that such a body of knowledge could be defined...