Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RLLATIVELY EASY to forget how lucky the U.S. is to have aggressive reporters and intense media competition, what with the glut of sappy stories that appear daily. For the people of India and the other developing nations, however, a free press remains merely an ideal, dwarfed by more pressing needs--like securing food, shelter, and adequate health. As a result, Western countries control close to 90 percent of the world's communication power, by one estimate, and the world media has come to look at poorer nations through Western-tinted eyes...
...Lowell so fascinating. His mission is instead to prove Lowell's place in American poetry. Hamilton's hindsight-fueled comments on Lowell's volumes fit neatly into the episodes of the poet's life. It is this juxtaposition of events and critical analysis which brilliantly destroys the view of ideal art as isolated from history--by making the history helpful, if not indispensable, to understanding and appreciating...
...Campus Connections questionnaire asked applicants a variety of questions about themselves and their ideal dates. Some questions related to physical qualities such as height and hair color. Others asked about personality, interests, and the individual's preferences...
...been achieved, even for a while, by moral inspiration alone. It has always required the highly imperfect, compromise-ridden and impure actions of political leaders. The dilemma potentially posed by the bishops' strivings is that reaching for the best could undermine the good, and that striving for the ideal might undermine the practical. -By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Jim Castelli/Washington, J. Madeleine Nash/Chicago and Bruce van Voorst/New York
Indeed, a number of them could still have a chance. Probably not Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, a career diplomat who may have to be content with the largely symbolic post of Soviet President. Or Boris Ponomarev, 77, a onetime historian, who seemed the ideal candidate to fill the role of party "theologian" before Andropov took the job held by the late Mikhail Suslov. Not elder statesmen like Brezhnev's Premier, Nikolai Tikhonov, 77, a man with more experience in government than in the party apparatus, or the widely traveled and urbane Central Committee Secretary Konstantin Rusakov...