A year ago, Howard became obsessed, he said, with the notion of paella cooked over an open fire: a peasant's feast in the Spanish style, tended by men in the dying light of a late afternoon.
The latest statistics contradict a number of misconceptions about refugee patterns, officials said, starting with the notion that Western countries shelter most fugitives from conflict.
There had been glamorous president's wives since – Nancy Reagan with her Dynasty gowns, say – but the notion of first lady chic remained almost synonymous with that sunny yet streamlined early-1960s sthat that is for ever Camelot.
The postmodern notion of "multiple identities" has become fashionable, he said, with its notion that "migration is an opportunity to reinvent one's identity".
Doctors who spoke with Forbes now say the notion that Jobs is taking time off simply because of complications from his cancer treatment specifically, the surgery he had to treat it in 2004 doesn't ring true.
Douglas Brinkley, a Rice University historian who was at the dinner with Mr. Obama, said that the notion of a second-term curse was overstated, but that the president would have to be assertive to remain relevant.
"I think the general newsroom perception might be that I'm pretty militant and I'm the 'angry black man,' or something like that," he said, dismissing the notion with a roll of the eyes.
"For more than 500 years, they have not been tolerant with us," he said, dismissing the notion of compromise -- "perverse" negotiations, he called it -- with other parties.
He said, "I struggle with the notion that my mind doesn't go far enough.
Mr. Williamson said he disagreed with the notion that the current treaty offered sufficient protection to Americans overseas.
