Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago Coward ran into a bright young radioman with a paying plan. Why not transcribe a Coward show, and send it to places where it would pull down handsomer rates than BBC can afford? The notion looked sound: for some months, effervescent, 26-year-old Harry Allen Towers has been cutting transcriptions featuring top British artists. The transcriptions have blank spots for commercials and are distributed to sponsors throughout the Empire...
Your admirable piece on Chen Li-fu [TIME, May 26] should quiet the notion that support for Chiang Kai-shek will prevent collectivism. Chen's goal, "key industries owned by the state," suggests what's ahead...
...Communists." During the war, he fought in the French underground. It was then that his search grew most desperate. In his wartime novel, La Lutte avec I'Ange (The Struggle with the Angel-so far published only in a limited Swiss edition), he cried out: "Has the notion of man a meaning...
...Once they were strung out around the big brick-&-asphalt saucer, the drivers had not the foggiest notion of their relative position in the race. They relied, as speedway drivers must, on the mechanics in the pit for information, pace instructions, fuel, repairs. Unlike the racehorse owner, who can only watch after his thoroughbred takes the track, Car Owner Lou Moore stood in the pit, busy, nervous, efficient...
...Communion of Hsiao. To Chen Li-fu, the way to virtue (and orderly society) is expressed in the word hsiao. To understand the Confucian notion of hsiao is to understand a great deal about Chen Li-fu and his China. Hsiao means, roughly, filial piety. But it stands for more than that. It means that the individual is nothing, the family everything. Hsiao holds Chinese society together; but it is also used as an excuse for graft and nepotism. Hsiao imposes on a man responsibilities the West does not know; but it also tends to modify the sense of personal...