Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JACK NICHOLSON must be viewed as dangerous. Dangerous to the status quo, and to our ideal of an untarnished hero. He has energy. He has charm. His brittle smile can be the most unsettling experience in cinema. His characters seek the unanswerable. He can love and kill in a single breath. Like a glass time-bomb, intricate and wired, he is capable at any instant of erupting into wicked, verbal violence...
...strongest CCA slate in many an election was taking on an Independent ticket depleted by the retirement of one member, Kevin P. Crane '73; the city's demographics had been getting better for liberals year after year; in short, it appeared an ideal election to pick up the fifth seat and end the long reliance on Alfred E. Vellucci for the vote that keeps rent control and the condo ordinance intact...
...choice is a difficult one. But to claim that we should sacrifice an insecure freedom for a secure bondage is a misguided assessment. Certain ends are at least as important as the ideal of nuclear disarmament; but following the majority view to its logical conclusion, nuclear disarmament can become a means to another, more insidious...
...without taking anything away from Callinan--who may be the finest running back in Crimson history--a ball carrier needs a good line to be effective. Harvard has a good line, anchored by the man Restic calls the ideal Multiflex guard...
...unable to blend into the new club. Presiding over it all was Coach Jack Ramsay, a fiercely proud tactician who did not coach as much as seek a vision of perfection on court. Ramsay was in turn bewildered, angry and, finally, bitter over the unraveling of the ideal...