Word: notion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beaten unconscious while residents in adjoining apartments turn a deaf ear to his shrieks. Six years ago, Kitty Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death in New York City while 38 of her neighbors, roused by her screams, watched or listened and did nothing. Such incidents feed the popular notion, especially in big cities, that the average citizen is not prepared to go to the aid of his fellow...
BROWN considered, and rejected the notion that the University should impose, by means of a "core curriculum" or a combination of required courses, any single idea of what a liberally educated person should "know." It also rejected the notion that the undergraduate should have no focus to his studies...
...nothing is more deeply embedded in the notion of what an American college education is all about than the necessity of having a "major" (for which, as for most things, we have a different term at Harvard). Clearly we have effected in the last few years a liberalization of many of the constraints in what used to be a rather rigid structure of undergraduate studies. There are not only more departments, there are also inter-departmental programs; there is independent study for credit; there are some creative courses and some virtually student-taught courses. Through all the innovations, however...
Such successes collide with the industry-fostered notion that passenger-service advocates are just sentimental buffs. In 1968, the railroads carried a substantial 92 million passengers, not counting commuters. Yet there is no denying one industry contention: the debt-laden railroads cannot afford costly but needed improvements...