Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That same ideal, despite its departure from ideology, has been stated more and more openly by officials in Peking since the reforms. They are also down-playing another Communist tenet, central control of factories. "In the past, we used to be a mother-in-law, and we relied on 'patriarchal dignity' to direct enterprises," says Deputy Premier Tian Jiyun. "Now we must get off our high horse and become just a simple 'attendant...
Clarke and Wackerbarth represent two other extremes: Clarke the intellectually artistic, and Wackerbarth the commercially artistic. Previous collaborators on a West German exhibition project, both men share an ideal of photography that demands intellectual as well as purely aesthetic content. The surprisingly copious text was written by William Least Heat Moon (chosen perhaps because his first book was entitled Blue Highways...
Part of the party's challenge is to realize a domestic vision that preserves the egalitarian ideal while promoting the prospect of individual opportunity and economic growth. Two Democrats at the forefront of such a strategy are New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley and Missouri Representative Richard Gephardt. They have proposed a simplified income tax plan that would eliminate all but a few personal deductions and lower significantly the rates for most taxpayers. Hart has talked about establishing individual training accounts for workers who are forced into new jobs...
Horses not only had ideal attributes in this scheme of things, they also made plausible heroes. The great example is Stubbs' prosaically titled Hambletonian, Rubbing Down, 1800. Hambletonian, winner of both the St. Leger and the Doncaster Gold Cup in 1796, belonged 3 to a rich and deep-gambling young baronet named Sir Henry Vane-Tempest. In 1799 Vane-Tempest put him up against Diamond, another star horse, for a purse of 3,000 guineas. (At the time, a farmer's laborer might have made the equivalent of five guineas a year.) The match drew the biggest crowd...
With his patrician good looks and air of thoughtful intensity, his blend of Western rationalism and passionate nationalism, Nehru was an ideal-and idealistic-leader of the new India. He was cosmopolitan, commanding, charismatic. His interest in civil rights had been quickened by his friend and mentor Gandhi, his intellectual theories refined at Harrow and Cambridge. As Prime Minister, he ambitiously embarked upon a path of democratic socialism, hoping to bring industry, literacy and, above all, modernity to an India that was in many areas poverty stricken and backward. Abroad, as his own Foreign Minister, he pursued a policy...