Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retired automaker appeared at a banquet thrown by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith to receive its first American Heritage Award in recognition of his years of civic service. After being praised by National Urban League President Vernon Jordan for his commitment to the ideal of "an open, integrated society," the prizewinner declared that shoring up U S. industry would do as much as anything to bring about "a more just social order...
...Child. As usual, Segal's principal characters are bright, attractive and preppie. Bob Beckwith, Yale '59, is an esteemed professor of statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His wife Sheila, Vassar '60, is a highly valued editor at a university press. The marriage is an ideal balance of temperaments, love, devotion, respect and affection. There are two blossoming daughters, a homestead in Lexington, Mass., and a summer place on Cape...
...attribute the ills of our current (mis)managed economic mess to capitalism is like blaming the victim for the crime. Do not blaspheme a noble ideal by giving capitalism's name to years of Keynesian meddling...
...they extended feline REM sleep from a normal six to ten minutes to nearly three hours. The Harvard cats obviously cannot describe their dreams or indicate if they really have any. But their cycles of sleep are so like those of humans that the sleep-prone animals are proving ideal research subjects-almost as important to psychiatrists as rats, mice and pigeons are to psychologists. Said McCarley: "One of the things that hampered psychiatrists has been the difficulty of finding an appropriate animal model for depression and schizophrenia, and it looks like ours is an important model for learning...
...worst. Almost randomly, King inserts short paragraphs alluding to Levi-Strauss's Elementary Structures of Kinship to back up his thesis on incest as repetition. King is not afraid, unfortunately, to make sweeping one-line statements about Freud's memory theories or characterize, without explaining, Cash as the "Weberian ideal type." King incessantly refers to these sociological and psychological giants with college freshman zeal: proud of his discovery that Freud applies to everything, King vows to include a key passage in every chapter. This irritating intention begins in the introductory chapter, where King announces self-importantly his summation...