Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...substitutes are an acceptable but less than ideal solution to the problem because-even kosher food becomes impure when it touches non-kosher plates or utensils, according to David Harbater '74. "It would be much easier to give us rebates," Harbater said...
...They are short. They reflect American life. An American Note may simply relate a funny or poignant incident, but it usually has some special significance. It may be a minor vignette or a brief comment on a major event; it may underscore the important or puncture the absurd. "The ideal item," says Nation Editor Jason McManus, "contains a moral, or a quality of fable, or the nucleus of some atom of the national mood...
Even as repression has become more muted in the Soviet Union, social and economic forces are at work in the society to temper ideological fundamentalism. A fervent, unashamed patriotism is still evident, as is a certain loyalty to the ideal of Communism. Still, mass education, one of the system's most laudable achievements, has created legions of men and women who are less inclined than their unlettered peasant parents to accept without question the necessity for class warfare or some of the other brutal simplicities of Communism...
Permissive Code. In his disciplined, balanced study, Abortion: Law, Choice and Morality (Macmillan, $14.95), Daniel Callahan strives to preserve the ideal of the sanctity of life within a permissive legal framework. Dispassionately examining all the arguments and options, the Roman Catholic intellectual and former editor of Commonweal tries to avoid what he calls "the mentality of the crusader." The problem, he argues, is priorities: the church's heart is in the right place in defending the sanctity of human life, but the bias too heavily favors fetal life alone. Yet he rejects abortion-on-request because it is based...
...from several U.S. universities and an invitation to Japan in the fall. He frankly revels in the attention. There have been too many years when his books were such frequent flops that his publishers made him adopt a pen name. What he really seems to be seeking is the ideal retreat in which to write those 20 books still in his head. It might yet be found in the green and rainy climate he left. · Martha Duffy