Word: notion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saying it's okay to offend Catholics but not Jews? Laws don't protect just minorities, they protect everyone. The notion that the less powerful are protected by the government against attacks by the more powerful, but that it's not reciprocal is nonsense. If you give the government the power to outlaw speech based on content, where do you draw the line...
...movement stays together, it is seen as authoritarian and without diversity," Abernethy says. "Or the notion is that the Africans can never get together...
Because Women's Studies has not yet dried up into a "field," the notion of "strengthening your knowledge" of the subject in a compartmentalized, abstract way holds no sway...
Park, Diebenkorn and Bischoff regularly drew together from live models, eschewing abstract expressionism's notion of drawing "from the subconscious," a holdover from surrealist automatism. In a work of the '50s like Coffee, 1956, Diebenkorn smudged over or omitted facial features altogether. Bischoff harmonized roughly sketched figures and their environments in understated, cool-warm canvases like the perfectly composed Orange Sweater, 1955. Weeks, a billboard painter by trade, followed Park in destroying his earlier works, opting instead for abstracted figures rendered in big blocks of color...
...issued an internal memo instructing its employees to ensure "that none of our recordings promote bigotry." But Public Enemy and its supporters remain unapologetic. "This is Chuck's point of view as an African man living on this planet," says Harry Allen, a self-described hip-hop activist. "The notion of saying things to Europeans to make them comfortable is not part of the game...