Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit to America in 1979. Says Church: "He is a remarkably popular individual who has managed to convince even those who disagree with him that we are all united under God's love. To have somebody attempt to kill him is like aiming bullets at an ideal...
Sophomore pitcher Nancy Boutilier feels that Ippolito's ability to "stay in touch with reality" makes her an ideal captain. "Betty is one of the few people at this school who has the proper perspective on things," she says. "So whatever the situation requires to motivate the team. Betty can provide it. Maybe that's why she's such a great leader...
...poets' purpose amid all this car nage and chaos is noble: "Giving new force to the last remaining bond be tween all Germans, namely, the German language they held in common." Their behavior quickly proves unworthy of their unifying ideal. They begin by squabbling over the proper use of dactylic words. They fall into grim dispute "over the essence of irony and of humor." Thunderous abuse follows the reading of each manuscript. Worst of all, these noble spirits find themselves implicated in the cruelty of their age; the feast mysteriously provided them by Gelnhausen, a dashing young member...
...quarterbacks on the New England roster, along with ailing Steve Grogan, Matt Cavanaugh and possible free-agent Tom Owen. The mathematics aren't bad: "Erhardt says he wants to go with three quarterbacks," Buckley said, "and if Owen leaves there may be a spot. This seems to be the ideal situation, and if I show them what I can do, maybe I can catch...
...panorama of his past sexual encounters. At the bottom of the track, in hideous anticipation, wait the women of the convention. They hurl him into a cage and truck him off to his trial. Acquitted of an unknown crime. Snaporaz elects nevertheless to suffer the punishment: revelation of his Ideal Woman...