Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main categories: requited love, simple pleasures, unrequited love, mother's day, out of sync, hudson river retrospective and generic dad. Although the essays in each section do relate to each other, each has the potential to stand as its own story. For this reason Schnur's book is ideal for vacation reading...
Private action may be found lacking at times. The free market is not a utopian ideal. But the idea that government can, through coercion, create a utopia or eliminate all human suffering is itself utopian. If we value freedom from government coercion, we should attempt to foster as many private solutions to social problems as possible...
...meet them, the Bartels (who are just a little bit too goopishly written and played) have one pluperfect daughter and are expecting what turns out to be an ideal little brother for her. Michael is a scientist doing what we understand to be socially useful research. Claire does volunteer work at the botanical gardens. Clearly they like to grow new things. At the same time, however, they have a decent respect for tradition: their house is a handsomely refurbished old place, tastefully decorated with antique mission furniture...
...vagaries of the congressional seniority system. (Whether term limits would cure this defect is another question. Although Byrd has been in the Senate for 33 years, he has only been Appropriations chairman for three). But, perhaps by coincidence, West Virginia is -- from an anti-Washington perspective -- probably the ideal place for the Federal Government to seep away to. Economically and culturally, if not geographically, it's about as far away from Washington as anyplace else in the country...
Fighting words in any language. Still, Wagner should not be blamed for Hitler's final solution, even though it is true that the Fuhrer -- who saw himself as a Siegfried-like embodiment of the Wagnerian Teutonic ideal -- was lionized annually at the Bayreuth festival and Wagner's music sometimes sounded in the death camps. That says more about Hitler than Wagner -- who had by then been dead for a half-century and was not responsible for the misuse of his works by the Nazis...