Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coleman says the GOP should recognize that "the position Blacks have in the Democratic Party is far from ideal" and make an effort to reach out to Blacks. "We'll have to grow together," she says of the Black community and the Republican Party...
...universal symbol, as valid for the isolated state as for the besieged heart. In this lean, piercing novel, Lisa Grunwald renews the metaphor by making Sanders Island, off Cape Cod, Mass., a garden and a desert. The narrator, Jennifer Burke, is the younger daughter of what seems an ideal couple: Milo and Lulu Burke are so devoted that they have always refused to fly in separate planes because "they wouldn't have wanted to go on without each other...
...staged demonstrations near the Kremlin. His activism broadened as he joined the unofficial Moscow Helsinki Watch Group set up to monitor Soviet compliance with the human-rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreements. Shcharansky's fluency in English, his easy good nature and visible courage made him an ideal go-between for human-rights activists and the Western press. The KGB kept him under constant surveillance while he shuttled around Moscow keeping foreign correspondents apprised of the dissident movement...
...Rhapsodie Espagnole, Lalo's five-movement showpiece for violin and orchestra has never won a firm place in the standard repertory. Sometimes in performance, it even has its third movement omitted, for unfathomable reasons. But a high-spirited, sensitive soloist can make it effective, and Mutter, 22, is that ideal performer. A German whose effortless technique and voluptuous sound put her in the forefront of today's young instrumentalists, she lights up the Iberian peninsula with her dazzling technique. If anything, her performance of Sarasate's lusty Gypsy fantasy Zigeunerweisen is even more spectacular...
...truly unbelievable. Pete Rose, Julius Irving, Wayne Gretzky...the list of magnificent athletes is endless. Weekly, I am presented with the myopic American ideal of excellence: sweaty, scantily clad individuals, almost exclusively men, in various stages of exertion. Thank God for the swimsuit issue. For those of us who were consistently chosen last in grade-school kickball and who crawled through the Presidential Physical Fitness test, it is a welcome, yet brief, respite from fifty-one weeks of pornography. Michael A. Snyder...