Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand; we are too small and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nuding on the Middle ages. And now you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give...
...marketing value. Last week the company opened a $15 million corporate museum called the World of Coca-Cola (admission: $2.50). The three-story building houses more than 1,000 artifacts, memorabilia and documents, ranging from 75-year-old green-glass bottles to advertising posters with tag lines like "The Ideal Brain Tonic" and "Coke...
Banned for 40 years, the 69-year-old Communist Party has influence with the A.N.C. as well as powerful black trade unions, which seems likely to give it a considerable say in negotiations. The party's utopian ideal of economic equality holds a powerful attraction for the millions of blacks disadvantaged ) by apartheid. But Slovo says his first priority is enfranchisement of South Africa's blacks. "I don't believe that communism is on the agenda," he told TIME. He says he now favors multiparty democracy and a mixed economy...
With the switch to Lauder, she will have a more visible profile in the business world and the media. That, according to her feminist friend Gloria Steinem, is ideal. "I think of Robin as the new woman executive -- a lot more individual in dress and behavior, with a sense of humor, a whole person. That's why both men and women love working for her. She makes it fun for the individual...
...propositions. It segregated the races by law and custom, was poor in every index except natural resources, and held fervently to a one-party politics whose ultimate, if often obscured, objective was the perpetuation of a class and caste system distinctly different from the . national ideal...