Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remain unimpaired. The effort to respect this fredom can require great strength and self-restraint in the face of trying provocations. And yet, the more controversial ideas this community can tolerate and the more unpopular speakers we can hear without disruption, the closer we will come to the highest ideal of a university. I hope that we will all be equal to this challenge...
...renaissance ideal imposed upon nearly 100 percent of pre-professional football and basketball players is one that less than 30 percent of the general population of high school graduates will choose...
...hold athletes to such an abnormal standard? Because of a public desire to form them into some ideal mold? Because universities find football and basketball programs too financially lucrative to risk tampering with...
Athletics is no longer a narrowly defined business, and the "scholar-athlete" ideal is a glorious but outdated concept. Once that's realized, regulations like the four-year college-football rule and Rule 48 will be reduced to a non-controversy...
What a ruckus the women raised, despite the ideal of demure silence! In 1643, in the midst of civil war, as many as 6,000 women marched on Parliament "to cry for Peace, which was to the women a pleasing thing." Off and on throughout the century, dairymaids would form an "Amazonian" mob to protest against enclosure of the land where their cattle grazed. The militants armed themselves with scythes and pitchforks, and on one occasion threatened to burn the houses, drown the servants and cut off the head of one of their oppressors, a certain Captain Thomas Lovell...