Word: idealizations
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This pictorial core is preceded by a scale model of the original installation in Munich (an astonishing piece of detective work in itself), complete with the Nazis' derogatory slogans ("Revelation of the Jewish racial soul," "The ideal -- cretin and whore," and so forth) written around them. The museum has also produced voluminous samplings of other aspects of the Nazi program of culture as total propaganda. There are vitrines of banned books and Nazi catalogs, and tape loops of old newsreels of cultural parades in Munich: triumphal processions of kitsch, with huge papier-mache Greek heads borne by people dressed...
Instead of surrendering to the myth, Wolf is calling, if vaguely, for nothing less than its overthrow. The first step, she says, is to recognize the underlying issues of domination and female competition. Then she exhorts women to refuse to suffer any longer for the sake of an ideal beauty in which adornment and style are a source of pain rather than pleasure. That is both an old challenge and a tall order...
When Mikhail Gorbachev launched his own diplomatic offensive to resolve the Persian Gulf crisis last October, he asked his personal adviser, Yevgeni Primakov, to take on the task. Primakov, 61, was an ideal choice: as a correspondent for Pravda in the 1960s, he traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and met Saddam Hussein many times...
...main drawback of Social Analysis is that it's just too broad. Nothing whatsoever unifies this Core subdivision. "Principles of Economics," "Individual Differences," "Modern Democracy" and "Knowledge of Language" may be interesting in and of themselves, but let's be honest, they have nothing in common. No, the ideal concentration must have some. Grand Unifying Theme (GUT) to lead you to some vitally important Deep Inner Meaning...
...undergraduate delegation also suggested that an ideal candidate would be willing to work with undergraduates...