Word: idealizations
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...volunteering for the Army Cadet Program in 1943 at the age of 16-and-a-half. Because of the different nationalities of his parents and the ethnic variegation of Hastings in general, Restic was proficient in three languages: Slovak, Russian and Ukrainian. This background made him an ideal candidate to be a Special Agent in the European Theatre of Operations...
Libertarian thinker Nathaniel Branden crystallized the privatization sentiment in an essay included in Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal. He responds to the question of whether education should be compulsory and tax-supported as it is today...
...failure of the narrative lies not so much in the crushingly mundane subject-matter as in Colwin's crushingly mudane treatment of it. She wheels forth a drab plot wrapped up in cardboard characters and unrealistic dialogue. Her clear, competent prose would serve as the ideal vehicle for conveying some idea, if only she had an idea to convey...
...first glance, Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day seems the ideal subject for a Merchant Ivory adaptation. Like many of the E.M. Forster works which Merchant Ivory has produced in the past, The Remains of the Day takes place in the English countryside in a time of lost glory; each of the novel's eight sections, as in E.M. Forster's novels, even assume the name of the locale in which they are set. Likewise, Ishiguro's work is preoccupied with moral questions, just as Howard's End is. Compared to Forster's novels, though, The Remains...
This devotion to old-fashioned family values makes Bowe an ideal champ for the puritanical 1990s. So far, the closest he has come to scandal has been a charge by a former girlfriend that he is the father of her son. Bowe immediately agreed to support the child, until blood tests revealed he wasn't the father after all. "You might consider it a pressure ((to be a role model)), but it's no pressure for me," he says. "I'd be privileged to help someone out. And look where I came from. If it weren't for Muhammad...