Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class of life's freshmen. They offer no criteria, arbitrarily choosing the Best Book of the Bible (Job), the World's Best Restaurant (France's Pyramide), the Best College at Oxford (Magdalen), the Best Flavor of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream (Mandarin Chocolate). Such judgments are ideal for those who would rather sample the wine label than the wine. But even these insecure customers can find little solace in The Best. Many of its items are mere common sense (the Best Chess Player Other Than Bobby Fischer: Boris Spassky). Many more are only clothbound Consumer Reports (the Best...
...together, an ideal candidate for a scholarship to Yale (class of 1958), and that's what he got. In New Haven the poor, bright, pint-sized Midwesterner felt left out, though his classmates were dazzled by his ability to make instant anagrams out of any name that was mentioned ("Alec Guinness" became "genuine class"). Along with French and German, he acquired a great many cultural tag lines and thriftily squirreled them away in the back of his mind for future use. Cavett is certainly the only comedian extant who could say, "Where did we get this obsession that exegesis...
...husband. Her attractive Middle American image, well-groomed but never so conspicuously fashionable to cause envy, could scarcely have been better for a conservative President. She had a talent for small talk and mixing with people that always eluded Nixon. He quickly discovered as well that she was an ideal ambassador, and she has probably traveled more miles abroad than any other First Lady. Through some legerdemain, she always managed on those trips, no matter how long and tiring the day, to look perfectly turned out and to be gracious...
...Ideal Somnambulism. At one stroke, Moreau was canonized as a patron saint of dandyism and decadence, the father of symbolist art. His canvases, exotic in their spurts and blooms of color, are populated by pale androgynous youths and languid women encased, like scarab beetles, in glittering carapaces of emerald and embroidery. Such pictures were hailed as setting the tone of an entire sensibility-the same cast of imagination that in literature ran from Flaubert's Salammbô to Swinburne and Wilde, heavy with allusions to enigmatic and castrating Fatal Women. Moreau's own work was rich in homosexual...
...dynamism that animated Moreau's romantic predecessors, Delacroix and Chassériau. Rather, it is a delight of surface. To fix it, Moreau resorted to what he called the "beauty of inertia." He noted of Michelangelo, whom he adored: "All these figures seem fixed in a gesture of ideal somnambulism; they are unconscious of the movements they make." Once immobilized, the figures in his allegorical paintings-Oedipus, Salome and the like-could then be loaded with accessories, encrusted with redundant decoration...