My years spent listening to obscure country-blues sides in the parlor rooms of 78 r.p.m. collectors had prepared me, in a way, for what I hoped to hear in Epirus: a visceral expression of a particular way of living, uninfected by outside notions of how art should work.
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But to many on the outside, the notion that the campaign, which polls suggest is flailing, has suffered from excessive caution seems absurd.
From the outside, the notion of a representative of the ultimate world of conspicuous consumerism – with those six-figure weekly salaries, faux Tudor mansions and Baby Bentleys in the training-ground car park – talking about ethical living will be greeted with incredulity.
"The witch stands outside the notion of acceptable behavior -- she challenges the power structure, she's dangerous, she's angry," said Phyllis Curott, a lawyer, Wiccan priestess and the author of "The Book of Shadows" (Broadway Books, 1999), in which she describes her discovery of the craft.
We should also all be able to agree that attempting to murder people for the crime of visiting a museum lies outside any notion of morality.
Perhaps, those principles are now defined by technology, social networks and individual empowerment, forces that lie outside conventional notions of geostrategic power.
In The Men Who Wear the Star, historian Charles M. Robinson III creates a colorful portrait of the Texas Rangers that gives them credit for their many brave triumphs without sentimentalizing their exploits, which took place within a context of bitter hatred against Mexicans and Indians and well outside modern notions of due process and human rights.
Now his departure has clarified matters by stripping away any notion that outside intervention or the removal of one man alone can end splintering and feuding in the Balkans.
AS a "ticket to something outside zoning," the notion of an advisory panel concerns the community group Civitas.
It was my first realization that a presidential campaign in Belarus, a former republic of the Soviet Union, operates with a logic outside any traditional notion of democracy.
