Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Housing all first-years in a series of dorms at the center of the campus is an ideal well worth preserving. For first-years in the Yard, there are literally hundreds of potential friends within steps of each dorm's doorway, a nearly endless supply of ideological foes and drinking buddies. The sheer fact of geography, however, will severely limit the breadth of Apley residents' exposure to 3 a.m. political debates and spontaneous snow football games. And neither the high ceilings nor the claw-footed bathtubs of Apley Court will change this fact...
Becker described "widespread cultural forces to be thin" in the U.S. and said that because Americans are becoming increasingly overweight, the ideal of thinness "is increasingly unattainable...
SETTING SUN FOR JAPANESE STOCKS Japan's economy purportedly grew fastest of all the industrial countries last year, had no inflation and near zero interest rates. Ideal ingredients for a booming stock market. Yet Japan's stock market is rolling like a snowball down Mount Fuji. The Nikkei 225 index dropped more than 10% so far this year, to 17689,and some 55% off its peak of 38915, reached...
...purpose of Inauguration Day is to cover over that sort of animus, and there is no better city in which to do that than Washington. Packed like a bright graveyard with slabs of marble and men on horseback, Washington is a ceremony waiting to happen. It is also the ideal urban setting for the great stone wall. One reason the movie of All the President's Men was so scary was that it captured the crumminess behind the wall, not unlike the Watergate burglary itself. Think of that splendid moment when a TV screen showed Nixon being sworn...
...joke here is that Spoon and Stretch, who are less performance artists than petty criminals, suffer from welfare-state dependency. And in Michigan, this is the wrong state to depend on. Public servants are ignorant or lazy or just plain crazy. But Spoon and Stretch aren't your ideal victims. Their signature act of social aggression is to smoke cigarettes in government offices. Their way of bonding is for one to give the other a gut wound with a penknife. They're the Jerky Boys, playing mortal pranks on themselves...