Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fiscal year. This is $7.5 billion less than the Administration's request, but the reduction is not as important as the manner in which Congress decided to make the cuts. The bill was the first major test of Congress's will to live up to its bold ideal of setting its own spending ceilings and sticking to them...
Because he's unable to make decisions, the neurotic adopts an ideal model, and attempts to act as if he were that ideal. But he finds himself hopelessly stymied, since that ideal doesn't correspond at all to his own inner reality. Allan Felix in Play It Again, Sam is haunted by the specter of Bogart--when his wife leaves him, he can only ask himself what Bogey would have done. Bogey would have mended himself with the aid of a little bourbon and soda. But, Allen reflects, if he himself has "one thimbleful of bourbon...
...Harvard, which had planned to combine the library, museum and archives with the existing John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government and its Institute of Politics on a site a few blocks from Harvard Square. John Kennedy had visited the site a month before he was assassinated and pronounced it "ideal." But many Cambridge residents were vehemently opposed to the memorial, fearing that it would attract hordes of tourists into the already bursting Harvard Square area. Indeed, in announcing the decision, Ted Kennedy referred to a "small and vociferous group that was prepared to entangle" the Cambridge site in lawsuits...
...simplest level, the problem manifests itself in language. Words are generalizations designed to describe ideal types. Liberal theory assumes that man can know the essence of every object, but words limit the degree to which he can describe a thing; he can never perfectly describe any particular object...
...Powers's major characters want to return to a less confusing society, where an omnipotent God sees even little sparrows fall and curates always look up to their pastors. The tension between an ideal stability and the actual flux of human relationships is brought out in small ways: the young father in the title story who wants to show his children the balance in nature, and to believe in it himself, but who can't find a really satisfactory explanation for a baby bird's death; the pastor who has waited years to get a curate...