Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folks look better. In the fitness game, appearances are deceivingly important. Looking good, whether for love or money, is a national aim. "We're just madly brushing our teeth, shampooing, and holding our stomachs when we make love," complains California Psychologist Michael Evans. "We've made the ideal physical type one that is really difficult to achieve...
Sukkoth, the planners decided, is the ideal festival for promoting Jewish-Christian reconciliation. It is the only one of three obligatory Jewish pilgrim festivals in the Bible that was not supplanted in Christianity (Passover became Easter, and the Feast of Weeks became Pentecost Sunday). The seven-day festival stressed repentance for Christendom's past sins against Jews. Explained the program: "Though we may not be accountable personally for the historic victimization of the Jews or the resultant dilemma in the Jewish perception of Christianity, we must still bear the guilt for atrocities committed against God's Chosen People...
Martin expressed similar concern for the pre-doctorate fellowship program that the foundation has sponsored, suggesting that the program was ideal for selecting young researchers on merit...
...like museums because they think of them as tombs, or something negative," he remarked in an interview recently. "I've always loved them. They are to me lighthouses of utopianism and social well-being." Why utopianism? Because the museum does nothing if it does not strive toward some ideal of visual literacy. Its mission begins from the unquestioned belief that learning to see is as important as learning to read, and that seeing is not the property of one class...
...more ideal recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature than Elias Canetti, 76, would have to be invented. When the Bulgarian-born novelist, play wright and essayist, with his Einsteinian white mane and mustache, arrives in Stockholm on Dec. 10 to claim the $180,000 award, he will precisely fit the Swedish Academy's taste in laureates. Canetti's sensibilities, like those of last year's winner, Polish Poet Czeslaw Milosz, are survivors of Europe's prewar culture. A poly lingual resident of England, who writes exclusively in a high, lapidary German, he is fashionably...