Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes it seems that some ideal system of manners must be imprinted in the collective unconscious of the race; at any rate, men and women have been trying long enough to discover it. One of the earliest known books, the Instructions of Ptahhotep, was an Egyptian behavior manual written around 2350 B.C. (Among Ptahhotep's precepts: Never offend a self-made man, and "Be silent, for it is better than teftef flowers.") Ever since then, social thinkers have believed that in manners, even in the most frivolous gestures of a culture, they could detect its hidden tectonics and tendencies...
...experience gained by running against top competition under less than ideal circumstances can only help the pair in future races, Hunt said...
Watership Down may not be the ideal rendering of a book in which a lot of people have a vested emotional interest, but it is a worthy addition to the classic tradition of screen animation. Like the great Disney pictures of the past, it is illuminated by a darkness and an energy that rescue it time and again from blandness and cuteness and give it those resonances that will reverberate in a child's imagination. -Richard Schickel
...George Kitahara puts it, "present varieties of fruit trees are obsolete before they are full grown." Consider, for instance, what scientists at the University of California at Davis are doing with the lowly tomato. They have developed a "square" tomato with a tough flat-sided skin that is ideal for both picking by machine and packing for shipment without bruising; it has become the standard tomato for canning. Now agrono mists are close to developing a tomato resistant to the salt that settles in irrigated fields or is blown onto cropland by sea breezes. One researcher quips...
Nelson agreed with the reasoning. "I'm not sure that Walter and I ever did work that well together. It never was the ideal match-up." But he added that with the platooning, "it takes a while to get back into the game. I'm not going to play my best game this...