Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover hinted slyly that Jackie had discovered a new heart interest: JACKIE KENNEDY AND THE TV STAR. All that added up to, on page 46, was that Robert Vaughn (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), who has never met Mrs. Kennedy and quite possibly never will, considers her "my intellectual ideal." Or so Modern Screen claimed...
Imperial Japan's ancient ideal was one family under one roof. Today's typical Japanese family still lives that way-but often the roof covers only a single room. More than three-fourths of Tokyo's private rental units are one-room warrens, and both the financial and the human costs are fearful. Almost once a week a Tokyo infant smothers to death in an overcrowded communal bed. A taxi driver recently nabbed by police for making love to his wife in the public plaza of the Imperial Palace was given a sympathetic release when he pleaded...
John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) is ideal prey for people who like to think about banning books. This subject of Massachusetts' most recent attack also figured in what is believed to be the first recorded suppression of literature on grounds of obscenity in the United States, Commonwealth v. Holmes, an 1821 case in which two Massachusetts men were indicted "for publishing a lewd and obsecene print, contained in a certain book entitled Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, and also for publishing the said book...
...forbids killing, stealing, adultery, lying, use of alcoholic liquor. But among those who don't practice the teachings, there are killers, thieves, adulterers, liars, drunkards. It is simply a case of man against religion-just as racial trouble in the U.S. is a case of man against an ideal. As for your statement that many Buddhists secretly believe they "can tame Communism," I have known several instances where Buddhists turned down some Communists who posed as friends of Buddhism by pointing out this or that common denominator in the two "isms" and by saying that Buddhism and Communism...
...Westerners at all sure that they want them. Believing their own propaganda about the "spiritual superiority" of their way of life, they stand with a foot in each world. A leader like Nehru urged, on the one hand, rapid industrialization, and on the other revered the Gandhian ideal of small, self-sufficient communities dedicated to hand spinning. The non-Western personality is in fact schizophrenic, writes Sinai; and in an acid aside, he suggests that psychiatrists might be more useful in the new nations than economists...