Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What to say of these liberal hawks? That they are marked by good faith but a terrible confusion. The confusion is between individual and national morality. In private conduct, altruism is the ideal. For a nation, it can mean ruin. In private conduct, self-interest is a suspect motive. Intervening in a fight for reasons of right is the stuff of western heroes. Intervening in a fight because you need the weaker party...
...melding mostly accusatory reminiscence with chunks of Shakespeare pertinent to his career, her career or their often remote private relationship. As Redgrave performs on an all but bare stage, a shadowy portrait of her father looms behind her all the time, as if to remind her of an acting ideal to which, alas, she cannot measure...
There are many people of color who have made tremendous achievements, who would be ideal Commencement speakers, and who not capouse views that deny the right of an oppresses group: California Representative Maxine Waters, Nelson Mandela, Professor Anita Hill and Coretta Scott King are just a few examples...
Colin Powell, a man who has risen from poverty to become America's most prominent military officer and a major actor in international affairs, might seem an ideal choice for Harvard's Commencement speaker. Yet among the radical fringe which dominates campus discussion at Harvard, the prospect of having to listen to a political moderate at Commencement is apparently too daunting even to contemplate...
...Daniela Bleichmar). The scene is a biting and devastatingly hilarious satire of both cooking shows and American attitudes to things south of the border. Cohen and Bleichmar are a pleasure to watch, exhibiting a flair for ribaldry and broad comedy. Cohen has a marvelous protean quality which is ideal for a production like this, where the actors have to play multiple roles. Bleichmar revels in the characters she plays, from Mr. Herbert the gringo philanthropist to Tobias' wife Clotilde, and she can incite giggles just by the way she pronounces the word "rabbits...