Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although she talks about alienation from society and self caused by apartheid, Gordimer scorns an empty, abstract ideal of relevance. "Artists shouldn't talk about apartheid--they have to go deeper," she snorts. The writer can make others feel, and the emotional depth necessary to convey such experience comes from a writer's internal commitment, she says. "Commitment takes over from within--it's the point at which the inner and outer world fuse." Commitment is the process of making moral decisions on grounds frustratingly ambiguous and clouded...
Despite a degree of political harassment and the humiliation and frustration of seeing her works banned, Gordimer protests she falls far short of Rosa's ideal. "I've never been named, and wouldn't be (naming is a form of punishment less severe than banning, but which restricts movement and visits). People are named as a result of direct political activity. It takes a lot of courage to do that," she says...
Inattention to research skills inevitably leads to the problems in telling the truth, he argues, Handlin pokes his finger here and there at the naughty historians, mentioning places and points where they have strayed from the ideal. However, his explanation of what went wrong doesn't surface until halfway through the book, after he gives a detailed list of research how-tos for the history major. Handlin repeatedly argues that speculation on the psychological behavior of historical figures does not belong in a history book: subjective data on Hitler's bisexuality or Nixon's insecurity are the stuff of trashy...
Chester Arthur Kinsman is one of Bova's ideal astronauts. These are not the sterile, blandly patriotic robots projected by NASA flacks, but intensely human and necessarily flawed men--and women--who believe in what they are doing and possess enough independence to reject or exploit bureaucratic maneuvering that surrounds them. As Bova portrays it, the path into space--whether it be military, industrial or political--will be strewn with the carcasses of careers and programs that, regardless of merit, lose behind-the-scenes struggles of power and influence...
Glashow said the three Nobel laureates worked on the underlying connection between electromagnetism and the "weak" nuclear force (which causes radioactivity), as a step towards Einstein's ideal of a fully unified field theory that would include gravity and the "strong" nuclear force (which binds protons to neutrons...