Word: ideal
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...agree with the staff's underlying assertion that blocking group size should remain a matter of student choice. But for this very reason, we are wary of their implicit conception of an "ideal" blocking group...
...student's unique first-year experience produces an infinitely diverse array of personal bonds. Reducing any particular network of friendships to mere factors of size of intimacy ignores their individual richness and worth. It is up to each individual student--through personal introspection and open dialogue--to determine the ideal blocking group. The end result might happen to be a large, small, tight-knit or diffuse group. It could mean a group that encapsulates one's entire social circle or one that exists solely for convenience...
Most important is that despite these differences, each blocking group has the same potential to contribute positively to the House community. The challenge, then, lies not in deriving some ideal definition of blocking, but rather, in successfully integrating these diverse groups into a larger whole. Meeting this challenge requires the collective efforts of everyone who belongs--or will belong--to a House. --Jenny E. Heller '01 Richard...
...Chaffin '00 skillfully conveyed both Rene's insecurity and futile search for a false ideal of true love when he described through a series of flashbacks from his cell in a Paris prison the details of Rene's scandalous affair. John Doan's portrayal of Rene's friend Marc as a ruthless womanizer who views women as objects designed for his pleasure magnified the pitiful character of Rene, who was unpopular at school, indulged his fantasies by reading playboy and married an older woman he didn't love...
...world of small-time Chicago crooks and coin-thieves. And, yes, it is a world. It has a landscape, a language and a code of honor all its own. It is a world where business and crime are synonyms, where friends equal family, and where loyalty is the highest ideal...