Word: notion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clammy even watching somebody else up in a tree." So there was Newman near the top of a 90-ft. Oregon pine, hauling up a chain saw and hand ax. It took a film, of course, a version of Ken Kesey's novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, to induce the actor-acrophobe to do lumberjack stunts. He reported two weeks early in order to work on his timber technique with a real north-woods logger. "It takes a lot of acting," Newman admitted, "to cover up the fear...
...plot notion hardly impresses serious critics like University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman. Instead, they view the environmental movement as a mere fad that will soon vanish, like the War on Poverty. Friedman also decries the tendency of some crusaders to cast big industrial corporations* as "evil devils who are deliberately polluting the air." He argues that the real source of most pollution is the consumer...
...notion of teen-age gangs evokes memories of the '50s, of leather-jacketed youths sporting zip guns and garrison belts, of the Sharks and the Jets in the urban ballet that was West Side Story. To the residents of Chicago's sprawling black ghetto, however, the images are more immediate and far more menacing...
...Dakota Democrat George McGovern and Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield. they have arranged for a three-week campaign on local television stations in 43 cities. Their aim: to generate public pressure for passage of the amendment when it comes up for a vote later next month. Whatever the result, the notion of using commercials to sell political or social viewpoints could open a new outlet for advocates and a fresh source of income for television...
...companies a $10 million facility it plans to build ("the most advanced corporate survival center yet designed." says the brochure), has so far recruited not a single shelter seeker. This may signify that the nuclear nightmare is waning. Or it may mean that Americans have come to accept the notion that there is no real defense against doomsday, if it ever comes...