Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...place of the Greek ideal--fitness of body as a necessary complement to fitness of mind--many Harvard undergraduates assume that their sports-inclined classmates are simply scholars in their spare time...
...what it's about is the Greek ideal:sound body, sound mind," says swimmer Dave S.Alpert '97. "Here, it isn't like state schoolswhere it's easy to tip one way or the other. Youtry to keep a balance...
...conflict about the plane's cost shouldn't obscure one question: What would these new planes brandish in battle? With atomic Armageddon receding, the ideal new-world-order weapon should be a precision-guided, nonnuclear bomb, similar to those used with devastating effect in the Gulf War. One such ``smart'' bomb can do the work of 100 ``dumb'' bombs, puts fewer pilots at risk and dramatically reduces the tonnage of fuel and weapons that has to be shipped to a war zone. Indeed, the Pentagon was working on the top-secret Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (dubbed Tee-Sam), which...
...Arendt is most at home above it all. "Dearest Mary," she writes in 1964, "the chief vice of every egalitarian society is Envy ... This constant comparing is really the quintessence of vulgarity." This fact does not stop the two pen pals from making comparisons. Yet the assessments share an ideal of high-mindedness, of scaling some moral peak that towers over fallible theories and suspect ideologies. Parts of letters read like encounters in The Magic Mountain and offer clues to the thematic overload in McCarthy's last novels. Happily, most of the exchanges have the vitality and cutting edge...
...always faced one major rhetorical handicap: the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. The Founders explicitly took lawmaking power out of the people's hands, opting for a representative democracy and not a direct democracy. What concerned them, especially James Madison, was the specter of popular "passions" unleashed. Their ideal was cool deliberation by elected representatives, buffered from the often shifting winds of opinion -- inside-the-Beltway deliberation. Madison insisted in the Federalist Papers on the need to "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best...