Word: notion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school legal aid project, CLAO is particularly susceptible to the charge of using the community solely for its own research and educational purposes. Former director Ferren rejects this notion and says that there is no conflict between CLAO's service to the community and its education of students. CLAO was founded, Ferren said, on the concept that "only through legal service do we have a way of learning what the legal problems...
...only 17% think they will ever come to depend on the Federal Government again. They are equally unlikely to seek help from either of the two major political parties. Though 63% believe Democrats are more likely than Republicans to help blacks, an even higher 72% entirely reject the notion of reflex party support, preferring to vote for "whichever man will help the blacks." In fact, black self-reliance and self-confidence have progressed to the point where a surprising 41%-to-38% plurality can foresee themselves taking real control of their local governments in the next few years...
...other hand, there is something so embarrassingly absurd about the notion of purging the nation of blacks that it seems hardly a product of thought at all. It is more like a primitive reflex, a throwback to the dim past of tribal experience, which we rationalize and try to make respectable by dressing it up in the gaudy and highly questionable trappings of what we call the "concept of race." Yet, despite its absurdity, the fantasy of a blackless America continues to turn up. It is a fantasy born not merely of racism but of petulance, of exasperation, of moral...
Such conflicting motives doomed the Colonization Society to failure, but what amazes one even more than the notion that anyone could have believed in its success is the fact that it was attempted during a period when the blacks, slave and free, made up 18% of the total population. When we consider how long blacks had been in the New World and had been transforming it and being Americanized by it, the scheme appears not only fantastic, but the product of a free-floating irrationality. Indeed, a national pathology...
...week they had been searching the heated green jungles and shimmering veldts of Tabasco for Alyosha and the Tribe. Just this morning Merilee had awakened to the thought that perhaps Alyosha said Oaxaca rather than Tabasco. She had not yet told Sam her notion, or the keeds, who would be woefully disappointed...