Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alvare, a spokesperson for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, in your February 21 article ("Anti-Abortion Activists Look to Future," news story). I find it humorous at best and pathetic at worst that she described the goal of the anti-choice movement to be to "affirm a new notion of womanhood in which fertility is not a disability." If one accepts this comment, we must then assume that the anti-choice movement is actively doing something to reduce unwanted pregnancies in this country. These efforts must involve one of the the three ways to prevent pregnancies--sex education...
...along with the most basic institutions like the workplace-that continues to need refining. "I would say we're in a stalled revolution," says Hochschild, "Women have gone into the labor force, but not much else has changed to adapt to that new situation. We have not rewired the notion of manhood so that it makes sense to men to participate at home. Marriage then becomes the shock absorber of those strains...
...have spoken to three masters," he said, "andthey were exceedingly favorable to the notion ofbeing able to advertise parties in other houses...
...have your most useful talks? Her answer, "With my dog. He really understands me." This anecdote leads into Zeldin's discussion of conversation and of one of his heroes, Socrates. In an age when monologue was dominant-gods or kings lectured while common folk listened-Socrates developed the revolutionary notion of the dialogue. Another conversational revolutionary was Madame de Rambouillet, who in the 18th century organized discourse in a new forum, the salon, that allowed men and women to talk to one another on an equal basis...
...Greene's novels are essays on fallenness (and self-accusations), they are also, by the same token, arguments against the whole notion of enmity, or reminders, at least, that our enemies are no less vulnerable and right in their own minds than ourselves. With his famous taste for ambiguity, and refusal to see things in black and white (except in his condemnation of any institution that would treat humans as tokens, statistics or pawns), Greene made it his lifework to understand every position: one of his plays is even called Yes and No. And as a headmaster...