Word: idealizations
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BENEATH A BLUE UMBRELLA by Jack Prelutsky (Greenwillow; $15.95). The poet laureate of childhood has found his ideal illustrator in Garth Williams. Here are enough amusement and instruction to last a lifetime. Sample: "I had a little secret/ that I could not wait to tell,/ I whispered it to Willa,/ who repeated it to Nell./ Nell had to tell Belinda,/ who told Laura and Lenore,/ I think my little secret/ is no secret anymore...
...wine-country joke has it that the surest way to turn a large fortune into a small one is to buy a vineyard. Perhaps so, but there seems to be an endless supply of multimillionaires whose ideal of a little place in the country is a boutique winery on Napa County's Howell Mountain or Rutherford Bench. Twenty-five years ago, the county had a scant two dozen wineries; today there are more than 200, and about a dozen more are on the drawing boards...
...destiny's joke," says one of his few remaining loyalists. "It seems we planted the ideal of independence so deep that now these countries are trying to win their independence from each other." Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador go their...
...brochures apparently made the sale for him. Sometime later, Cardoen was contacted by Iraqi army officers, who were interested in one of the weapons listed in his sales kit: the cluster bomb, a destructive antipersonnel device that scatters tiny bomblets over a wide area. The weapon was ideal for Iraq's relatively unskilled air force, especially after Iran began attacking Iraqi positions with human waves of fanatical young fighters...
...believe when an organization discriminates against an ideal, you're one step away from abridging our right to free speech," said Fred DeCaro '93, one of the students demonstrating yesterday...