Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign policy based upon open negotiations, recognizing this country's basic ideal of human rights, is more honest to our beliefs. And it may be a good foreign policy for a world in need of moral leadership...
...more difficult; it involves vast archives." On the other hand, he dismisses-with a downward sweep of his arms-documentary biographers who limit themselves to a recitation of facts. Says he: "The only imagination allowed is over form, not facts, but that imagination can be considerable." Edel's ideal, and a theme of the course, is that biography "can become a work of art and literature...
...challenge of taking on 1600 students every year. Describing school administration as something he has wanted to do "almost from the beginning," Moses explains that since his days as a graduate student at Cornell, where he later became involved in the admissions office, he has maintained the "double ideal of teaching and deaning...
Located about eight miles southwest of Maui, the 45-sq.-mi. Hawaiian islet of Kahoola we consists mostly of arid red earth and barren rock. It is inhabited only by about 400 wild goats. To the U.S. Navy, the island is an ideal target range; since 1941, pilots have blasted it with millions of tons of bombs, shells and rockets. But to native Hawaiians, Kahoolawe is sacred ground, home of the gentle rain goddess Hina...
...pops up in much current feminist fiction. A well-meaning man who has be come the "bill-paying machine" everyone expected him to be, Henry Jackson first tries to bully and then to cajole Hannah into the operating room. He argues sensibly that she is chasing after a romantic ideal, unattainable in life and certainly in death. "I'm a good dentist," he tells her. "And I might have been a good artist instead, if I'd had a chance to try. But I don't want the chance...