Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Revel is a disillusioned Socialist who was once a Programme Commun candidate for the National Assembly. He defines his ideal of socialism broadly-"any evolution, reform or revolution" that tends to make an economy "function to the benefit of a larger number of men and [put it] a little more under their control." Such true socialism as exists in the world today, he argues, can survive only along with social justice and political democracy-that is, in the liberal democracies of the West. The two principal obstacles to socialism are Communism and nationalism, he contends. The combination...
...this tune, killing King was not a luxury. He needed the mission, he needed the concept of killing King to hold himself together. It gave him the cohesion he was utterly dependent on. It was not just a twisted ideal that led him on. It was a compulsive obsession, and he was having trouble sustaining it over the period of time he had set to accomplish his disparate plans ... Given the chain of circumstances of his life, killing King had become Ray's destiny...
...from 5 in. to 9 in. lower and shaped so that the occupant could take the natural squatting position of primitive man; it should also have a wider padded seat and incorporate two water jets for cleansing. Many washbasins, he finds, are built "so low as to be ideal only for small children." He proposes a contoured bowl, 36 in. high, deep at one end, wide and shallow at the other, with a fountain spout that can be used for mouth washing and shampooing...
Smuggled Plea. The 18-day Nairobi assembly, the first held in Africa, presented an ideal opportunity to end that conspiracy. As the 2,300 churchmen poured into Nairobi, arms from the Soviet Union and the troops of its allies were pouring into Angola. But when the assembly came to making a statement against meddling in Angola, it pointed a finger of blame only at South Africa...
Much more often, however, Stanley Kubrick is armored in the serene belief that whatever judgment the public passes on his new movie when it opens next week, he has fulfilled the director's basic ideal, which is to shoot "economically and with as much beauty and gracefulness as possible." Beyond that, he adds, "All you can do is either pose questions or make truthful observations about human behavior. The only morality is not to be dishonest." Barry Lyndon fulfills that ideal as well...