Word: ideale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Stuffed toy animals make ideal Christmas presents for small children...
Blood Brothers. Such a prospect stirs suspicions and concern among Ulster's traditional politicians-both Protestant and Catholic. Their worry: McKeown's vision of an "ideal democracy" organized "from the bottom up" could clash with what essentially will have to be a political and constitutional solution. Some also fear a crippling backlash of cynicism should the peace movement, like others before it, falter after a headline-grabbing series of rallies. "I have no great faith in it," says a leading Catholic politician. "The people of Ulster are not all blood brothers, as the movement says. They are still...
...even Fried's own history seems to substantiate Prescott's claim that contemporary America is a fallen world, at odds with its ideal past. A large part of the book's bite comes, in fact, from a half-humorous debunking of out historical myths: Emerson got most of his ideas from his Unitarian cohorts, Fried smirkingly insinuates, and Benjamin ("Early to bed, early to rise") Franklin never rose until noon. More substantively, it's hard to detect any real difference between, for example, the imperialism for which Julian chides the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Stuart Rantoul Prescott's glorious...
...pathology" rationale: the structural impetus toward black unemployment that has long plagued the U.S. economy. Contrary to Moynihan's pompous suggestion, blacks can hardly thank "the healing powers of the democratic ideal and the creative vitality of the Negro people" for any success they have gained in the past 15 years. Rather the Gutman book testifies that creativity prospered long ago in the "living space" provided by antibellum slavery. It may have been after slavery that blacks had to struggle to keep that adaptive spark alive as doors to Northern skills and skilled jobs slammed shut. An "unidentified 38-year...
...particular feeling is that there is no particular virtue in not eating cake unless it helps my brother to have bread ... the ascetic ideal as such makes no appeal to me. The question, as I see it, is the extent to which our denial may help others ... My wife has a leaky heart. If she can be kept from overwork the doctor has said that she may hope for a reasonable long and useful life ... I think it is a dubious service to society not to bring up [my five children] as well...