Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...armory's not an ideal site--it's just abasic act of mercy," Stewart said. The 20-bedfacility would raise the number of shelter bedsavailable in the city to 127, while a city reportreleased last spring estimated that there weremore than 250 homeless people in Cambridge...
INTELLECTUALS--AND THIS category includes all creative types--are naturally predisposed to believe in the power of ideas, particularly their own, so the tendency to overrate their impact is not surprising. And nuclear war is the ideal intellectual stomping ground to let loose pent-up speculative urges. It's a problem of literally earth-shattering import, it's endlessly debatable, and best of all it's completely hypothetical. No one every fought and nuclear war, or even came all that close to fighting one, so experts can only guess and guess again about the issue. And once you've mastered...
...syndicate president, San Diego Businessman Malin Burnham, put together what Burnham calls a "mini-NASA" of more than 20, including aerospace scientists and hydrodynamics researchers. "Having the wrong fit between boat and local weather would have been fatal," explains Design Manager John Marshall. In search of the ideal hull, the team used a computer analysis of wind and wave conditions on the Indian Ocean while turning out four prototypes, the last of which was Stars & Stripes. As for the keel, Marshall allows that it has a "shorter set of wings than Kookaburra, which means that there is less drag downwind...
...sorry state of student-faculty contact is something which affects us all directly and is, consequently, an ideal subject for activism. Despite chronic grumbling, students have yet to advocate concrete, unified solution. Indeed, complaints rarely move beyond the whining stage. Activism could gain credibility by galvanizing support for much-needed reforms, such as finding ways in which students and professors could meet more casually...
Martins is making the organization, as well as the dancers, work his way. Several departments have changed hands. Martins does all the casting, not to everyone's approval. He envisions an ideal in which every dancer can take every part, and there are those who think that in pursuing this goal he too often casts against type...