Word: notion
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Another conflict arose at NOW's convention in Cincinnati three weeks ago, when delegates unanimously approved the notion of starting a third party around the woolly notions of sexual, environmental and economic freedom. Hearing that, NARAL executive director Kate Michelman interrupted her vacation in New Hampshire to criticize the third-party idea as "counterproductive." A pro-choice strategist dismissed Yard's notion as the "politics of 'screw you.' " Schneider agrees: "You punish your friends without blocking your enemies...
...this is not to suggest that caution is a bad thing: Romeo and Juliet died prematurely, after all. Romance has always included some degree of calculation. Indeed, the very notion of true love, according to many scholars, is a relatively recent invention; in most places, in most times, marriage has been a practical arrangement. Those who scoff at matrimonial ads in Indian papers may have few qualms about placing SWM notices in their local tabloids; a blind date is only an arranged marriage in potentia. If disease and collision liability have put a crimp in promiscuity, that...
...calculated. (She calls a reporter at home to amend her earlier list of favorite reading: add Doctorow's Billy Bathgate and Mann's Tonio Kroger to a shelf that already features Flaubert, Henry James and John Fowles.) In earnest, carefully molded sentences, she strives to dispel the notion that she is strictly a TV creation. "I really love what you learn every day in the business," she says. "I love the breathtaking way we walk into people's lives and ask them anything we want and then leave. For a moment you have available to you the whole universe...
...result of the past decade's stagnation is that many whites and blacks have given up on integration as a goal that can be achieved or that is even entirely desirable. "To the extent that white folks had a notion of integration, it meant that more and more black folks would become more like us," says white historian David Garrow, a biographer of Martin Luther King Jr. This political climate has left many black leaders disheartened. "We don't have a clue on how to proceed," says Eleanor Holmes Norton, a top civil rights official in the Carter Administration...
From this, the Prime Minister's bottom line, a dangerous notion transcends Israel's current internal political crisis. It is the idea that the intifadeh must be defeated rather than merely calmed...