Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Powell himself, by disposition, inclination and personal history, is perhaps the ideal candidate to seize the large ideological center of American politics...
With the new fellowship, AAUW hopes to further reduce gender bias in American classrooms by working toward to ideal established by Myra Sadker's work...
This same media plays up a story like Gina Grant's, which perfectly sets in opposition an elite institution like Harvard and an ideal victim--abused by her mother and reformed by the justice system--only to demonize the elite, only to channel the jeers of millions of ordinary American sympathizers in a strike against an institution which they do not know, but can confidently criticize nonetheless. These are the knocks of the real world at Harvard's door...
College provided what seemed an ideal opportunity to start over. I began hanging out with people I thought had it together. I wanted to be like them. I thought they were cool--almost too cool for me, so I worked hard to catch...
...college roommate was something I had been looking forward to forever, and I desperately wanted us to be like the roommates I had seen in so many movies and books. But what I found my first year was that while this "ideal" college experience may exist for a lucky few, most of us spend our time just scrambling to get by, constantly trying to balance all the good and bad elements of our life at school. In other words, my roommate never did become my best friend, but she is still an integral part of my experience at Harvard, especially...