Word: ideality
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...plays--especially the kind of blockbuster musicals Lloyd Webber writes--into movies and also, as Disney's The Lion King demonstrates, to turn highly promoted films into money-spinning plays. Lloyd Webber's new real estate includes the London Palladium and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, famous large venues ideal for launching plays with transatlantic appeal that could morph into movies or television. Nor is Lloyd Webber's empire building likely to stop here. He and his partners are looking to buy up other major theaters in Europe and the U.S. In a few years they hope to take their...
...doing both, as Peter Edelman of the Department of Health and Human Services proved when he waited for the passage of Clinton's welfare bill before resigning because he could not stomach it. He was acting out of principled thinking. But whatever one's reasons, total constancy to the ideal is unrealistic. A Few Good Men was about the potential inhumanity of too much Semper Fi. Even dogs, to whom we assign unswerving devotion, will, because they are dogs, bite the hands that feed them. (Semper Fido...
...annual Senior Gift. Amidst the promises of ritzy New York cocktail parties and bonuses for the House that gets the most donations, the true purpose of the Senior Gift is easily obscured. Giving back to Harvard, a place that we all have undoubtedly benefited from, is a worthy ideal. However, the Senior Gift's failure to allow targeted donations and its emphasis on lavishly rewarding donors is misguided...
...York University professor Suzie Linfield says that Scarry is just sketching a personal ideal. Although pleasant, Scarry's book "has no connection to the real world that we inhabit," Linfield wrote in The L.A. Times...
...looked at dating the way I looked at colleges: What do I want in a girlfriend? What do I want my girlfriend to do for me? Over the years, I learned from the people I admired that finding the right person depends more on my being the ideal person than on my looking for the ideal person. If I try to be the perfect boyfriend, and eventually the perfect husband for my wife, then I will find the best girlfriend, and with a bit of work and luck, the best possible wife...