Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only made it to the debate on the morality of selfishness last December 10 heard Professor Harry Binswanger lay out a detailed chain of reasoning to establish that by virtue of the facts of reality and of human nature, the pursuit of rational self-interest is the moral ideal whose political corollary is a free society in which the individual rights are inviolate. In short, the individual lectures as well as the series as a whole were intended to present to the Harvard community some idea of the scope and content of Ayn Rand's historic intellectual achievements...
...rest of the league must be cringing. Harvard is peaking at the ideal moment and chugging along toward the Big Dance. And as the Crimson heads toward an unprecedented achievement, it seems as though nothing is going to slow the train down...
...union wants its pilots, who make about $120,000 a year, behind the controls of the planes, but American chairman Robert Crandall wants to use $35,000-a-year American Eagle pilots. "This plane makes a route such as Pocatello, Idaho to Dallas profitable," says Gwynne. "They're ideal for so-called 'long-thin' routes." Gwynne says some analysts believe that hundreds of the new planes may be in the air in the next few years, taking traffic away from the big-city hubs and jobs away from the pilots who fly there. American management is pushing the pilots...
...addition, many regret not asking a particular person to room with them for fear of rejection--when years later they discover that the situation would have been ideal...
...original "Du Bist Die Ruh," the piano keeps repeating a gently undulating phrase that is the ideal accompaniment for the song's simple melody. It is not a phrase for a harp to pluck--this "Ruh" was more irritating than peaceful. Baer seemed uncomfortable with the music being made around him, yet the strength of his voice did not waver. Like most people, he probably regretted Gillman's decision to end the song with a drum roll...