Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-time champion of the economically and racially oppressed, Jesse Jackson would seem the ideal candidate for the populist leader of the left. But Jackson has been conspicuously quiet on the budget negotiations, in sharp contrast to his front-and-center position on most issues (such as the Persian Gulf...
When officials from the Ivy League swore off athletic scholarships and proclaimed that student-athletes should be students first and foremost, they set up an ideal standard for intercollegiate athletic competition. Harvard's promotional literature reiterates this rhetoric, and the national press gushed about the geniuses in uniform who took the national hockey championship in 1989. Unfortunately, Harvard athletics fail to live to this ideal...
...Jack is an extremely intelligent, thoughtful person," says Robert H. Scott, Harvard's vice president for finance, who has known Meyer for years. "He'll be an ideal colleague for me as we work together to determine the needs [of Harvard...
PATRIOTISM is a political ideal, but also an emotion that seems a lost sensibility in our generation. (Interesting that we are the only generation in this country who is lucky enough never to have participated in a full scale...
...educated, thus calling into question what has been dubbed the brain gain. Some immigrant groups, especially Hispanics, seem to resist learning English, which in some states has already created a bilingual culture. That raises a deeply worrisome prospect. Is a healthy pluralism giving way to a corrosive separatism, the ideal of tolerance to reverse racism...