Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...existing institutions must give way to some sort of transcendent sovereignty and security, presumably by a government that embraces all mankind. Schell invokes love and Mahatma Gandhi, appealing for a kind of international Gandhiism to replace the system of nuclear-armed nation-states we now have. How that noble ideal is to be accomplished, he does not say. "I have left to others those awesome, urgent tasks, which, imposed on us by history, constitute the political work of our age." Thanks...
Sensible people given to sedentary pleasures have long been offended by the unsightly spectacle of their neighbors chugging around town in their underwear ("It must be spring, the saps are running again"), but no one has ever disputed the ideal at the heart of the Patriots Day race through the streets of Boston. For 86 years, it has been as pure as the April snow...
...moth into an apple grove, and leaps to agricultural science, throwing in the sarcastic lines "Polson pussy/synthesized and bottled." Then she returns to the man the poem describes, without ever confusing her images. In another poem, she addresses a snake, mocking and idolizing until the snake becomes an ideal woman. And the section of poems called "Talking That Talk" contrasts her voice against those of others, creating a rich, colloquial interior monologue that mirrors the city more accurately than would mere description...
...woman narrator here can afford to be much more subjective than the poet; the urban chic, Seventies ideal of woman-as-stick is livened up by the speaker's flair. Here, the language gives power to this woman in her struggle against male-dominated popular fashion, against Manhattan...
...such wide circulation might reduce Armani stock in the snob market, but that would be fine with him. His clothes, from the beginning, have mocked that kind of lofty social stratification; they have always been meant, in every sense of the word, to be loose. They should be an ideal within easy reach. It is a goal that Armani, alone among great designers, has not only appreciated but implemented. One dream fits...