Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is, however, another side to be taken. Grosz is primarily a caricaturist, and his unrelenting attacks upon society and its institutions can be partly attributed to a sincere desire to bring to people's minds the notion that all is not well. His bitter realization that the World War had nothing to do with spiritual purification made him turn against those phases of society which seemed to him to be contributing factors toward causing war. Hence Grosz's early work consists of a condemnation of the money-grabbing, cafe-inhabiting industrial magnate, and the puppet-like member...
...mechanism needed to assure able young people from all economic classes a chance to continue their education. Jefferson thought that having public schools and colleges was enough; President Conant believes that private scholarships are needed; and Mr. Williams puts up a brief for public scholarship assistance. The Jeffersonian notion is thoroughly outmoded, and the President's faith in the adequacy of private funds is also no longer tenable--his own annual pleas for scholarship funds growing more and more urgent as continued economic distress makes the problem increasingly acute. Willy nilly, educators must turn to the federal government for financial...
While heretofore the Allies have been left to wonder where the Nazis would strike next, last week the shoe was on the other foot. French papers have been toying with the notion of using General Weygand's Army-plus a Turkish Army-on a "Caucasian front"-i. e., in a campaign directed at Russia's rich oil fields. Krasnaya Zvezda, newsorgan of the Soviet Union's Commissariat of Defense, observed: "The scale of war preparations of the Anglo-French bloc in the Near East . . . leads us to think that we are not faced there by a mere...
...Japanese do not easily give up a notion once they get it in their heads. Last week they had quite a shock to discover that a 90-year-old notion was no longer true...
...Council rejects the notion that for the accomplishment of these aims one curriculum is as good as another so long as it is well taught. To become acquainted with the common tradition of human experience, the student must be required to expose himself to the broad areas of knowledge. To develop independent intellectual tools, he must be encouraged to pursue thoroughly some limited field of learning. In other words, there is a definite content to liberal education; and the present failure of Harvard College is that it supplies the specialized part of this content to the neglect of the general...