Word: notions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tories were not amused. Cell phones were already banned in the chamber because of their disruptive rings, but use of a silent pager presented a whole new issue. And the notion of stiff-lipped British pols beeping and winking their way through the Commons made more than one Conservative M.P. queasy. After mulling the matter over for an evening, Speaker Betty Boothroyd ruled that using the gadgets as an aide-memoire was "totally unacceptable," handing the Tories a victory in battle. But with the general election fast approaching, Labour's rapid response showed its determination...
Those who shy away from too much conversation about heaven can point out that detailed description of its charms has hardly been the historical rule. The two ancient peoples who probably contributed most to the heavenly notion both started out imagining a gray, undifferentiated afterlife, called Hades by the Greco-Roman culture and Sheol by the Jews. By 600 B.C., bodily resurrection had been incorporated into Judaism: the book of Ezekiel describes a field of dry bones, which at God's bidding "came together, bone to bone" and lived again. The motif recurred in the later books of the Hebrew...
...setting their tuition to make sure no one school became so much of a bargain that it drew the best students just on the basis of price. Less prestigious schools set their prices in relation to what the Ivies charged. Says Meyerson: "We were building up a kind of notion about colleges and universities that the higher the price, the better they were...
Arledge disputes any notion that ABC News is floundering. "The only area of ABC News that is what we would consider in trouble is Good Morning America," he says. "It clearly needs to be fixed, and we're doing that." Yet insiders say Arledge is more concerned than he lets on. Two months ago, at a regularly scheduled morning meeting in which the day's work plans are laid out, Arledge blew up when he heard that new White House correspondent John Donvan was unavailable to cover President Clinton that day because he was busy helping his family move. Arledge...
...technical performance was wildly erratic, the phrasing disjointed, the rhythms unreliable. Most disconcerting was the absence of any notion of what the pieces were designed to convey; Helfgott played a lot of notes but not much music. The audience didn't mind. Each piece was greeted with a roaring standing ovation, the kind once accorded only to a Rubinstein or a Horowitz...