Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Benning has been in an ideal position to watch Taylor's improvement over the years. From the other side of the blue line, he's seen Taylor grow more confident and more versatile as a defenseman. Taylor has not only become an excellent defensive player, but he now poses a serious offensive threat...
...indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce it barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand: we are too small and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages. And now you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give...
...peacetime. "By the time I got out of the Army Air Corps," wrote Reagan in his autobiography, Where's The Rest of Me?, "all I wanted to do . . . was rest up awhile, make love to my wife, and come up refreshed to a better job in an ideal world. (As it came out, I was disappointed in these postwar ambitions.)" But where had he been that he could not make love to his then wife, Jane Wyman? inquires Wills. "They had been in the same town for the last three years...
Ding says he is not surprised by the eruption of student protest at this time. According to him, the current political climate is ideal for students to voice demands...
...wrote, "Jesus saw that I was ripe for love. He plighted His troth to me and I became His." No self-denial attended this betrothal, only the deepest and most radiant devotion. Therese was a vibrant teenager, bursting with the juice of sanctity, and in Christ she found the ideal outlet for her holy passion. She reveled in his ascetic good looks, his impossible demands, his gentlemanly reticence. For Therese, God was the perfect man -- an amalgam of loving husband, righteous father, adorable son, good-time pal, indefatigable lover -- and she made herself the ultimate acolyte, surrendering to her heart...