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Word: idealisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVER since the announcement last year that Columbia lowered its academic admission standards to enhance the performance of its hapless football team, critics have denounced the policy as a movement away from the student-athlete ideal the Ivy League attempts to promote...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Making the Grade | 9/29/1988 | See Source »

...mythology's Paris--believing that a wrong choice on their part could launch a thousand ships? What a thought. Either these leaders are right about their importance in society--which would be frightening enough--or, more disturbingly, they could be trying to guide our national institutions toward some ideal where values like Veritas and objectivity dwarf the petty concerns of partisan politics...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: The Issues of the Day | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

Friday's weather--90 degrees and 80 percent humidity--was not ideal for running...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Harries Win; Men Finish Second | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...Toronto doctors with a reputation for radical technique and a comforting bedside manner. The rep is, in a way, only half earned. Ellie is the suave salesman; Bev is the genius of research. Cool Ellie is the connoisseur of female flesh; nerdy Bev probes deeper for his elusive womanly ideal. He wishes there were beauty contests for the insides of bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Terminal Case of Brotherly Love DEAD RINGERS | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

What if the ideal candidate did? He would recognize the following dilemmas...

Author: By Charles N. W. keckler, | Title: Advice and Descent | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

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