Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hannah blames her mother for teaching her that life's greatest virtue is snug security, and she regrets the husband, the only man she has ever known, who so perfectly lived up to her mother's ideal. Most of all she blames herself for spending her years listening rather than thinking...
Defector Fan turned out to be an ideal spokesman for Taipei's view. "I couldn't take it any more," he said after touching down at Tainan airbase in southern Taiwan. "There is simply no freedom on the mainland." Fan, who had been thinking of defecting for many years, prepared for his escape by listening to broadcasts from Taiwan giving directions on routes and proper signals for defectors to use. His opportunity came when his unit was transferred last month to a base in Fukien province, just across the Taiwan Strait...
Because of their vast size and huge needs, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are ideal economic trading partners. Saudi Arabia wants just about everything the U.S. has-and lots of it. The Saudis are striving to develop a modern defense system, and this year they will spend $10.7 billion on weapons, many from the U.S. The U.S. is building coastal defense vessels for the fledgling Saudi navy and training the crews. American firms have contracts totaling $17 billion for goods and services sold to Saudi Arabia. Thirty thousand Americans are now working in Saudi Arabia, at jobs ranging from installing...
...from U.S. collections -but there is one sublime group of paintings that have never been seen together in public before: Piet Mondrian's series of canvases centered around Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1942-43), done in exile in Manhattan. They make up one of the most exalted statements about ideal form in the history of art. One gains, at 30 years' distance, a full sense of why Mondrian's fanatical purity and countervailing richness of surface so obsessed his American followers...
...Henry James and Edith Wharton are prominent exceptions, though these writers spent most of their lives abroad While the public enjoys upstairs-downstairs capers, most critics view money and manners as intellectually déclassé. Members of the top crust do not match the nation's heroic ideal: the rebellious romantic who spurns corrupting society to hunt his singular salvation in wild nature...