Word: notions
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Though the report was researched by a 21-member advisory panel, Bennett emphasized that it reflects his personal thinking. He dismissed any notion that elementary schools are menaced by "a rising tide of mediocrity," the much publicized phrase used in A Nation at Risk, a 1983 report on American high schools by a panel appointed by his predecessor, T.H. Bell. Bennett contended that primary schoolchildren are "getting better at basic skills" like reading, writing and arithmetic. But, he maintained, "when asked to begin applying these skills to the acquisition of more complex knowledge, usually around fourth grade, many begin...
...notion may draw snickers from people subjected to the lurid lectures on the horrors of narcotics that generally passed for drug education in the '60s and '70s. "It only takes one kid in an auditorium who says, 'Hey, I know someone who did that drug and it didn't happen to him,' and your message is gone," says Richard Booze, assistant director of a Chicago-area training center for teachers. Many experts also doubt the effectiveness of Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" effort. That drive, focused on children 7 to 14, has prompted the organization of 10,000 clubs...
Before he became a character in American literature, Ken Kesey was a novelist. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) put him in the company of the young and the promising. He was a big man (a former wrestling champ at the University of Oregon) with a big talent. His family roots were in farming and logging; the rest is classic American tumbleweed. From Wallace Stegner's writing classes at Stanford, Kesey drifted to the San Francisco Bay Area, the playpen of countercultures. A bit young to be a founding beatnik...
...spiritual recovery from the Great Depression was almost complete. The American outcry for individual liberty was not, however, derived from the shared jubilation at the country's rebirth, but rather from voices of dissent which maintained that Roosevelt's new America stood in direct contrast to the Federalist fathers' notion of individualism...
...relative importance of these rights be assessed without a notion of the good?" he asked...