Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alliance with China would also have serious drawbacks. The Chinese have never rid themselves of what Asian critics call their "Middle Kingdom" complex, an attitude that dates back 3,000 years to the days when China considered itself the ideal country, halfway between heaven and earth. Others were backward barbarians, especially the Japanese, whose culture is heavily indebted to China. This prejudice was certainly strengthened by the rape of Nanking and other Japanese wartime atrocities, which the Chinese still recall regularly in propaganda plays...
Obviously the ideal situation is for all countries to be at a similar leval of revolutionary development. However, different countries are fighting at different stages, and it is not possible for some leadership to tell the people when the time is ripe for revolution. The masses themselves are the ones who determine when the time is ripe. In this way, Quebec occupies a very important position within the North American context in that it can provide an example for other people in their fight against American imperialism...
...high ideals in the Charter, the United Nations is a very down-to-earth and pragmatic organization, which for the most part deals with hard political realities rather than with sweet reason or ideal aspirations. The opportunities for inspirational leadership or crusading are exceedingly rare...
What is questionable is the undifferentiated attitude he takes toward what is fact and what is philosophy. Herrnstein talks of equality of opportunity as if we were fast approaching the ideal liberal state...
...engaged in a "fishing expedition" to acquire information which may lead to evidence for its court case. Prosecutors are doubtless also seeking to obtain information about anti-war resistance in the Boston area to which they would otherwise have no legal access, and the grand jury is the ideal vehicle by which they...