Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson article neglected the important facts and stressed the physical requirements, including the controversial height requirement. To put it simply, there were none. I told The Crimson that 5'6" for women and 5'8" for men would be ideal, and those were the requirements in another Asian fashion show I attended, but people would not be turned away on account of their height. However, what was actually printed in the newspaper is a different story...
...ideal that this process can protect thesestudents is an outrageous abuse of any sort of dueprocess," Cicciano said
...ballpark has the non-symmetrical dimensions that every baseball purist has built into their ideal stadium: 335 feet to left field, 319 right field, with a deeper power alley in right-center field than in left-center and a 25-foot tall wall in right. The deepest part of the ballpark isn't even dead center field--it's to the left of dead center, 410 feet away from home plate...
Refusing to accept discriminatory scholarships would increase Harvard's financial burden to provide need-blind admissions. But the ideal is worth the cost. The University should make it clear to all prospective students that Harvard will cover costs that discriminatory funding might otherwise...
Beuys' art deals with similar issues. Some of the more memorable Beuys pieces in the exhibition were a silk screen that read "Kunst=Kapital," ("Art=Capital"), and a plastic bag that had printed on it a chart showing Beuys' view of an ideal political system. (Beuys made up a limited edition of these bags and distributed them on the street.) Like Warhol, Beuys created directly for "the people," forcing us to think about our society...