Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decal on a car window does not grant the bearer a moral superiority. Spitting on the flag is about as effective a challenge to the Establishment as sticking pins in a wax effigy of the Pentagon. The externals of America are, at best, only expressions of a fragile ideal. The land of the free and the home of the brave is not a boast, but a hope. Liberty and justice for all is not a headline, but a desire...
...only chief it ever had. But the nagging problem that will not go away is Gray's tie with President Nixon. Whatever Hoover's flaws, no one could accuse him of playing partisan politics; he intended the bureau to be above such doings and made that ideal stick during his reign...
...narrowing, if not closing the income spectrum has been a U.S. ideal for more than half a century. The nation has imposed a progressive income tax since 1913, enforced a graduated estate tax since 1916 and passed expensive programs designed to alleviate poverty since the New Deal. Why have these policies had so little effect on income distribution between rich and poor...
...case is not without its problems, but it is certainly a useful antidote to the popular wisdom he disdains. Moreover, despite Greeley's propensity to make (usually funny) jokes at the expense of the Left, he is willing to acknowledge the accuracy of radical criticism of the corporate ideal, which ideal encouraged the anti-religious spirit. In so doing, he eases communication between the Left and the advocates of Catholic ethnics. Given the unusually bitter feelings which characterize relations between the two groups, this in itself is an admirable contribution...
...result, parts may collapse and eventually stop functioning altogether. To overcome this problem, Dr. Robert Bartlett of the University of California at Irvine proposes a simple solution: yawning. Bartlett urges doctors to teach and encourage patients to yawn deeply every five minutes or so, filling the lungs to near ideal capacity. He has invented a spirometer that registers the depth of breathing to encourage patient cooperation, but admits that most patients should be able to go it alone. The boredom of a hospital stay may be enough, he says, to keep them yawning their way to recovery...