Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This ideal girl is one who is pretty, good at everything, "really nice and always being herself," according to one adolescent Gilligan interviewed...
...call these people Y-CHOPs -- Young Commuting Home-Owning Parents -- a new version of an old ideal of the American nuclear family. They have come to Moreno Valley because a home in more established California cities can cost as much as a space shuttle. In "MoVal" a typical four-bedroom house on a 7,500- sq.-ft. lot costs $140,000. The affordable homes and quality of life have made Moreno Valley the fastest growing city in America...
Some of the reasons for the dominance of California athletes are obvious. First is nearly ideal year-round weather; in much of the state, the idea of a rain delay is a foreign concept. "It was just natural that we played sports anywhere, anytime," says Cheryl Miller, a Los Angeles native who developed into one of the best women basketball players of all time and a 1984 Olympic gold medalist. "I certainly wouldn't have been the player I was if I grew up somewhere else...
EXAMINATION of this reasoning shows how far we have gotten away from the original ideal of the university as a truth-seeking community rather than simply a collection of truth-seeking individuals. From the point of view of the isolated individual, it may seem inconsistent to punish his "self-expression" depending on the form it takes: Aren't both actions and words equally authentic expressions of his viewpoint, which must not be suppressed...
According to Tibi, such conflict of belief systems makes it necessary to abandon the idea that a single "New Order" can function for the entire world. he offered instead the more humble ideal of a "less disorderly world...