Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...launch a major offensive against the exposed ARVN forces. The unusual activity of the Communists, together with fresh evidence that they are currently recruiting extra manpower in North Viet Nam, hints at such a plan. They might even decide to come straight down through the DMZ. When? Politically, the ideal time could be somewhere between October, when Saigon holds its presidential election, and April, when the campaigning intensifies for the 1972 U.S. balloting...
...only appeared to be in human form. The orthodox consensus, of course, was that he was both truly man and truly God. Beyond that basic tenet, however, different cultures through the ages have invariably given Christ different characterizations. The medieval church saw him as the ideal knight in the spiritual guidebook Ancrene Wisse, and later as Christ the King?a connotation that happened to fit in nicely with the papacy's temporal claims...
Yeats' oft-quoted couplet sums up the ideal of ballet-the ideal so rarely achieved. And no wonder. Classical dance is at once the most sensuous and the most abstract of the theatrical arts. Its essence is the interaction of music with the movement of male and female bodies-the erotic impulse styled and formalized by discipline and grace and shaped to a unified whole...
...barriers is indeed necessary. But the Washington line has two deficiencies. Connally has made no hint of reciprocal U.S. trade concessions, and Europeans resentfully interpret his talk as a challenge to start a knock-down fight on trade. Though trade is important, monetary reform is, too. Even in an ideal world of unrestricted trade, the present monetary system is too rigid and dated to stand unchanged...
...Hester Glenn, 48, is a daughter of the town's First Family, accustomed to finding her opinions prevailing, like the order of nature. With her usual demanding expectations, Miss Hester married a dashing young man, whose chief qualification was his resemblance, on horseback, to her ideal of a Confederate officer. Off the horse, he turned out to be a cad. Miss Hester-as rigid as she was frigid-raised her two fatherless sons more or less as if Appomattox (and her marriage) had never happened...