Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ideal situation for me is to have the field by myself for two months," said Tsongas last week. "At some point I need to have the others in there because I need to have my ideas play off their ideas...
...ideal world, the Lampoon would show more respect for the well-being of life forms more intelligent than most of its members. (Well, not exactly. In a truly ideal world, the Lampoon would stop littering our campus with inane drivel and go into a more respectable business. Organized crime, perhaps...
...world is not ideal, and the Lampoon has proven incapable of listening to reason time and time again. Drastic measures are in order...
...ideal day for flat fishing is cloudless, calm and roasting hot. The guide poles the skiff along the flats in a predatory silence, and you stand on the bow platform, with line stripped out, sweating through the sunblock lotion, ready to cast. Tarpon fishing is stalking. You must see the fish and cast to it. Hence its peculiar excitement, which far exceeds trout or even salmon fishing. "Look, look, out there, about a hundred feet, in the white spot, a big one, he's coming, ooh, thrreee of them!" You peer and scan and peer again, and see nothing. Then...
...Unfortunately, that is somewhat like saying the ideal Arab-Israeli solution would be one pleasing to both Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat: true enough, but terribly hard to envision. The refugees insist that they will never feel safe in Iraq with Saddam Hussein in power, but the U.S. and its allies are as loath as ever to become enmeshed in the long civil war that may be required to topple the dictator. There seems to be little hope of persuading any of Iraq's neighbors to let in unlimited numbers of Kurds: Syria and Iran, which have large indigenous Kurdish...