Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ideal of the suburbs, the old American dream of home ownership and clean, well-lighted streets, may still contain a dose of nobility. But this paradise of parking lots and chemically treated, weed-free grass has never lived up to its promise. No mass transit means that millions of minivans clog our roads and foul our air. Malls and office complexes have lovely little atriums with trees, even as their power plants consume vast reservoirs of fossil fuels to air condition them...
...sexual reproduction, as couples even before Sarah and Abraham have known, can be a heartbreakingly unreliable process. Even under the best of circumstances -- a fertile couple having intercourse at the optimum moment in the woman's cycle -- it fails 3 times out of 4. When conditions are less than ideal -- when the woman is over 35, for example, or the man's sperm is defective or in short supply -- the odds lengthen dramatically...
...OURSELVES? Harvard is not the ideal center of reason, sensitivity and tolerance that Dean Jewett claims...
...contemplation the eye can give them. The port, under its light-suffused spell, its unpeopled high-summer sleep, becomes a subject of reverie but not a fantasy, anchored in the real by such declarative touches as the iron bollard placed dead center in the foreground, yet located in the ideal as well by Seurat's profound attentiveness...
...ideal fine arts department is one that is not quite organized in the sense of a centralized method of study," says Shearman, who is also the Boardman professor of fine arts. "There is a danger in an intellectual climate where disciplines form antagonistic groups...