Word: idealisms
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Clark, a softspoken, conciliatory California lawyer, brings with him a temperament and some personal connections that make him ideal for the job in ways that Allen was most troublesome. He has been a close friend of the President's for years, and served as his chief of staff when Reagan was Governor of California. During Senate confirmation hearings for his State Department post, Clark showed an almost shocking ignorance of foreign affairs. (He could not, for instance, name the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe.) But his sober and congenial performance at State has impressed his colleagues, particularly Haig...
...penchant for all or nothing thinking--entered a state of degrading obeisance to what he calls "the aesthetic of the hit." It was not what you did or how you did it, but the awareness that people everywhere were doing the same thing that mattered. Since "the ideal became agreement rather than well-judged action...men learned to be competent only in those modes which embraced the possibility of agreement." Things went more awry than ever in the places where power is held, as consensus reigned...
...Ingersoll said residents should not be saddled with a less than ideal neighbor in University Place because of Harvard's mistake in failing to consider the historically significant buildings...
Marx and Engels tried to apply their egalitarian ideal to secular goals and to much larger communities-entire countries and ultimately the whole world. Two German expatriates living in England, they were outraged by the abuses of the Industrial Revolution, which established new heights of wealth and new depths of poverty. The manufacturers and investors claimed wealth as their right, since they built the factories and paid the workers' salaries. Marx and Engels argued that the workers were being deprived of the very thing that gave them worth in society-the fruits of their labor. For capitalists to profit...
...nation renowned for bellicose trade unions, work stoppages, strikes and generally poor industrial relations. The British watch more television (20 hours a week) than anyone else (the Danes and Dutch read more newspapers). But they also prove to be the most concerned about good sexual relations in marriage, an ideal not always easy to achieve with the telly blaring...