Word: idealisms
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Some Review editors are married with family lives, but for many, the intense atmosphere of Gannett House becomes a social focus as well. "As a social institution, it's not ideal," says Nelson. "Many people would be happier if they did more of their socializing elsewhere simply because things do get tangled up in people's feelings of intellectual self worth...
Celibidache is shocked into agreement. He rejects a conventional career and becomes uncompromising in his pursuit of a musical ideal: every score must be minutely analyzed, but played as if spontaneous. He disdains recording studios and spends the next decades guest-conducting in Europe and Latin America. No American and few of the great European orchestras are willing to engage him because of his inordinate demands for rehearsal time...
Civil rights will not be the first political value to have its meaning reversed. The use of the term freedom to describe unfreedom goes back at least as far as Rousseau, who wrote, without irony, of an ideal republic in which men would be "forced to be free." In our day, the word democracy is so beloved of tyrants that some have named their countries after it, as in the German Democratic Republic (a.k.a. East Germany). And from Beirut to San Salvador, every gang of political thugs makes sure to kneel at least five times a day in the direction...
Because wrestlers lose a great deal of weight to make their weight class--between 20 and 40 pounds during the course of the season. Ellison said, wrestlers were targeted as the ideal subjects for the study...
Vandenberg Air Force Base was chosen as a shuttle facility because it offers ideal conditions for launching spacecraft into polar orbit. Shuttles lifting off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida enter a more or less equatorial orbit and fly over only part of the earth's surface. Spacecraft sent from Vandenberg into polar orbit will slice across the earth's twirling path and pass over a slightly different strip of the globe on each swing. Satellites placed in polar orbit have the capability of photographing any section of the earth. This gives them an intelligence-gathering potential significantly...