Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school as a part of an academic community. But we should not be so quick to mock that pretense. So long as universities take as part of their mission the education of future businessman, lawyers, and doctors, they will always be something less than committed to a purely intellectual ideal. But it is at least nice to see that they have some regrets about this state of affairs--that a Business School such as Columbia still is commited to the acadmeic ideal enough that a professor such as Edleman is not allowed to use his students as consultants...
...perfect world, only one Kim would run for President of South Korea. But perfection is rarely encountered in politics, and last week the one-Kim ideal exploded into a troika of Kims united only by their common surname and their desire to become the country's chief executive in the December election...
Scudder appears not a moment too soon, but still rather too late to rescue a movie in which Maurice and his great love, Clive (Hugh Grant), spend unconscionable amounts of screen time chastely twittering over their Cambridge teacups about the Platonic ideal of male love. Scudder also arrives on this pristine scene long after Maurice himself has dithered to death the matter of physically consummating his natural impulses...
...remembered Corinth as an ideal place, which it wasn't and isn't. But 10-year-old images weren't really ravaged when I returned...
...have been people who recognized in me an ability to do better than I thought I could, and they pushed me," he says. Schmoke downplays racial politics, contending that a leader's role is "to try to get people to see their commonality rather than their differences." His early ideal as a black politician was Republican Edward Brooke, the former Massachusetts Senator. Schmoke's impressive start may make him a model for a generation of politicians to come...