Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seeing people for the "content of their character, rather than the color of their skin," is an ideal in this country, one that arrived late in our history. Like many of our ideals it is a work in progress rather than a fact of life. The incompleteness of the ideal is not an excuse though, for taking steps backward. Self-segregation is such a step...
...misunderstanding of the core could imply that instructors are not adequately briefed on how to teach the classes. More likely the difficulty in realizing to the core's mission is a symbol of the difficulty in putting an ideal into practice...
...alienist (people who commit bizarre acts are said to be alienated from their right minds), Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, once a student of William James at Harvard. His belief is that childhood experiences are more important than inherited tendencies in ordering behavior, and this psychological determinism, an offense to the ideal of free will, is widely unpopular with the clergy, the mayor and other conventional thinkers. But Theodore Roosevelt, the new police commissioner, is enthusiastic, and on the sly he backs an investigation...
...were sitting fully clothed in an unused basement bathhouse beneath a rundown hotel in central Russia. The water in the green-tiled pool had long ago turned an oily, opaque black, and from the cavernous banquet room directly above our heads rock music reverberated. Hardly an ideal venue for a business meeting, but there are few safe places to discuss the sale of 200 lbs. of stolen emeralds...
...called the ideal woman of the nineties a "woman warrior" who is fiercely independent and determined in her goals...