Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best essay. "Absolutely Exclusive to Asylum." That's a big change for Mungo, who once took on the whole administration of B. U. as editor of the B. U. News. who founded and then tried to bust up Liberation News Service, who for a long time was the ideal Radical Voice for your TV show or street corner rally. He's still a newsman, but the news has changed: "Strong personal generators can be had for under $35... there is free music in the spheres, not to mention the public libraries." He's still moralizing, but the pitch is individualistic...
Shamateurism. The most lamentable aspect of this year's Davis Cup challenge was that, although the Rumanians were basically a sound and well-coached team, they had no business reaching the finals in the first place. The ideal Cup match would have pitted an Australian team of Rod Laver, Tony Roche and John Newcombe against the U.S.'s finest. But in the peculiar stratification of tennis players, the Australian stars are classified as full-fledged professionals (as opposed to "players" like Ashe, who may compete for money but are not under professional contract to any organization). Last July...
...nature is watchful, balanced. He may have been the first of the Magi to see the Star of Bethlehem. His beauty is ideal; the painter shaped him to inspire. Seen at some distance, Caspar looms like a tower of onyx robed in slashed summer clouds. Peer closer; he becomes a full-lipped flower bitten by the sun, bleeding pollen...
...acousticians attempt to achieve? At G.M., says Product Engineer Jim Leslie, the goal is "ker-chuck-that's what we want, ker-chuck." Chrysler, says Executive Body Engineer Jim Shank, aims for "the kind of sound you get when you drop a ripe pumpkin in the mud.v The ideal sound for American Motors, says Adamson, is "a clump-not a clink, clatter or clunk, but a clump." Of course, he concedes, "we will never reach the ultimate sound." Undeterred, scientists continue to chase across farm fields by dark of night, stethoscopes in hand, in pursuit of the elusive, perfect...
...about the existence of a non-existent son. And so they all manage to inhabit their two worlds simultaneously: one world. "reality," a vulgar inversion of an American's dreams, and the other, "illusion," a sustaining hope that a never-attainable future will reestablish the supremacy of the ideal...