Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swiftly, trippingly on the tongue. She is at her best in a passage like the one where she describes to Orlando the earmarks of a man in love. But at times an unwelcome hard edge creeps into her voice. In addition, I miss the extraordinary radiance and ebullience an ideal Rosalind should convey--a task that would be easier amid less bleak surroundings...
...country; it is part of the ritual of most sports. Baseball fans throw their allegiance behind teams for no other reason than that they play home games in their city. College alumni support their old school's football teams. Even the Greeks of the ancient Olympic games, the ideal for organizers of the modern Olympiad, rooted for representatives of their regions...
...Harriman, though he would lose heavily too, and therefore the nomination was hardly anything worth fighting for. In this way he whittled down the opposition of the state's powerful Republicans like Thomas Dewey who were suspicious of his ambition and his money. The contest of 1958 presented the ideal face for him; against Harriman, the Union Pacific heir, the issue of personal fortune was relatively muted. Rockefeller won by more than half a million votes, outspending Harriman by a bout that many dollars in that Battle of the Millionaires...
...Senate Finance and Budget committees; that proved a distinct plus in the eyes of the Georgian, a trained engineer who relies heavily on concepts of planning and management. Unlike Muskie, Mondale is a new face, a new generation. What is more, as a friend points out: "He is an ideal choice in the post-Watergate period. He is the world's straightest arrow...
Examine how Moynihan argued his apocalyptic hypothesis. For one, he carefully ignored the substance of the counter-culture's ideal, in part by focussing snidely on the left's most visible and fickle wing, the "children of the rich." The academic-turned-politician also evasively classified the critique of the discontent within a broad framework of Western development, comparing the present to the late 1930s and 40s, periods in which, he claimed, intellectuals in the West were disaffected with "'bourgeois' values such as liberty and democracy." Thus the left's critique of the United States can remain merely a negative...