Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last plate in an ironical series on the life of a "fallen woman," throughout which Klinger essayed some bitter jabs at the prevailing Victorian hypocrisies about virginity and whoredom. The luckless and persecuted heroine, freed from life, is carried away by an angel, or maybe an ideal lover, sprawled on his wings as on a feather bed. "We flee the shadow of death, not death itself, for it is the ultimate goal of our fondest wishes," Klinger wrote elsewhere...
...decision to bar him, on the grounds that he lacked enough valid signatures from National Assemblymen and provincial councilmen, was "arbitrary and unlawful." Therefore, he added, he would probably not bother to appeal, since the same result could be expected the second time around. "To achieve his ideal, a fighter has ways to fight-legal and illegal," said Ky. "Until this minute, I still follow the legal way to fight." The implication was perfectly clear that at any moment he might switch to other tactics-and that was the point he wanted to get across. "With rigged elections," said...
...every age, egalitarians have pursued the ideal of a classless society achieved through freedom of opportunity. Now a Harvard professor of psychology has branded the ideal a chimera. On the contrary, says Richard Herrnstein, educational equality and unrestricted social mobility will lead to a stratified society of hereditary castes...
...which everyone is free to do as he pleases, in which nobody uses money to make other people do what they otherwise would not do. It also assumes that in this Utopia all sexual partners give themselves freely out of love for one another. But even if such an ideal state really existed, would it be fair to condemn anyone who failed to live up to the ideal? To condemn, that is, the soldier far from home, the traveling salesman, the frightened student, and the old and the ugly and the neurotic-all the victims of circumstance or life...
...their "straight" neighbors on farms or in small villages, they all too often look like sex-mad anarchists. But the thousands of Americans who have chosen to create a new life in rural communes regard themselves as a new generation of pioneers pursuing that most elusive of goals-the ideal society...