Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...address the real problems of technology, Kass says, physicians need to return to the ideal of caring and healing, instead of acting as medical technicians obsessed with sustaining life at any cost. Life itself is not the ultimate value. The ultimate value which physicians must hold is that of healing, actually making sick people feel better. With the overuse of technology, doctors have changed from healers, or life-affirmers, to life-prolongers...
...Controlled choice" plans, such as the one currently used within Cambridge, are ideal. In Cambridge's system, transportation for school transfer is funded, and the racial balance of each school is taken into account when deciding which students can switch schools. Unfortunately, other communities will be less willing to provide the resources necessary to guarantee transportation and establish the Parent Information Centers which help Cambridge parents make educated decisions...
...agree with the staff position that Leonard Jeffries is an obnoxious, hateful character. But in the interest of protecting the greater ideal of academic freedom, his ideas must not be institutionally silenced. As a scholar--of whatever quality--Jeffries should be protected; as a common criminal, Jeffries should be incarcerated...
...trick of Doctorow's novel -- a meditation on '30s Mob boss Dutch Schultz -- was in its narrative voice. Young Billy, from Bathgate Avenue in the Bronx, was the ideal observer: a talisman for the gang, a kind of underworld groupie who is appreciative of their style and implicated in their actions but still one ironic step outside their souls, and who is ready to analyze every movement and moment in 484 pages of headlong streetwise orotundity and subordinate clauses even longer than this one. Tom Stoppard's script daringly dumps that voice (there is no voice-over narration) and puts...
...Jewish and Arab quarters which in more (yet not entirely) peaceful times were infused with members of each other's creeds have now become fortresses of ethnicity, bastions of faith. Hybridization has given way to puritanism, and an ideal of co-operation has given way to a belief that Arabs and Jews are best advised to stay within their own self-imposed enclaves...