Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the major reason the Bicentennial has created visible uneasiness across the land is that it inevitably calls down from the heights of our history an old ideal that frightens many contemporary Americans: self-reliance. It is a measure of our situation that a call for individual or even community action so often results, in fact, in no action at all. Whatever the problem, it is left for the Government to solve. Americans hesitate to acknowledge that perpetually passing the buck to Government may not indicate an enlightened concern with the plight of our fellow citizens so much...
...Lugano, Paris, Tehran and SkorpiÓs-needed a society portraitist. The empty angel of the '60s has effortlessly become the Boldini of the '70s. The alienation of the artist, of which one heard so much talk a few years ago, no longer exists for Warhol: his ideal society has crystallized round him and learned to love his entropy...
...inhabitants of Eudoxia, of course, assume that the carpet is ideal and harmonious, while the city is the approximation. But the traveller from Venice sees the other possibility as well...
...third threat to the American promise concerns equality. The Declaration's assertion that "all men are created equal" has always been the most embattled of its "self-evident truths." Philosophers and politicians consistently attacked the idea. "The cornerstone of democracy is a natural inequality, its ideal the selection of the most fit," declared Nicholas Murray Butler. The bitter debate about slavery centered on the belief that neither God nor nature had created men equal in strength or gifts...
...connected with recurring fedayeen attacks on Israelis. Two teams of six people each were chosen for the mission: a killer team and a spotter team to pick out their targets. The killers went first, leaving Israel around 8:30 on the night of June 11. It was an ideal time: the moon had set early and the sky was black. The six-five men and a young woman-assembled at an airfield in northern Israel and stowed their guns and gear aboard a Bell 205 helicopter belonging to the Israeli air force. They kept their faces covered so that even...