Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...image of the delicate woman bears a striking resemblance to the 50s ideal that my mother and the other women of her generation fought to get away from," she said...
...York Times reveals, Murray begins his new book with a paradox. The success of America's ideal of equality, which has been promoted through equal opportunity, has effectively served to create a country of classes divided by intelligence. Meritocracy ensures inequality, as individuals become separated socioeconomically based on their ability to perform in the free market of the academy and the workplace...
...does seem healthy that a book such as Murray's can be published despite the prevailing American compulsion to avoid taboo topics. And Murray should be commended for his call to restore the traditional ideal of the scholar as someone who ought to "find the truth and disclose it." An inevitable result is that certain truths might prove disturbing to conventional wisdom...
...work that had announced to the world the maturity of American musical theater. The alleged racial bias in the plot, which occasioned protests during the tryout of the Toronto production last year, is nowhere to be found here. To see Show Boat is to experience how potent the Broadway ideal can be in the hands of a master like Prince...
...these courts are located on the roof of the athletic center, and the surfaces are less than ideal...