Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Educators have long charged that the pressures of big-time college sports programs make a mockery of the scholar-athlete ideal. Last week the National Collegiate Athletic Association took two steps toward restoring that ideal. At a heated NCAA convention in Dallas, university presidents overcame a dogged goal-line stand by money-minded athletic directors and trimmed the number of days allotted to organized basketball and football activities. In addition, delegates approved a rule to help high school athletes figure out which colleges will give them the best shot at getting an education...
Most were adamant. Not ever, they said. They love their country. The German Democratic Republic, not the Federal Republic of the West. They believe in socialism. Still. Not the socialism of their disgraced and discredited leaders but the socialism they have been taught as an ideal for 40 years. Now the attainment of that socialism may be possible, they said. The tyrants are gone. The West is accessible, and relations between the two states should be easy, and economic cooperation should begin...
...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 nudging 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...
...movie that, in the manner of Georges Simenon's novels, treats melodramatic subjects with clinical dispassion. Chabrol never coddles viewers; he trusts them to sort out the evidence. His Marie is too complicated to be either a monster or a savior. And Huppert's beautifully deadpan performance finds the ideal emblem for Marie, a vessel empty of everything but human contradictions...
...hardwood stage, bare except for a bed and chair, is an ideal place for this intense love story to unfold. The emphasis of the work is on characterization--the focus falls on the two actors, who shine unencumbered by theatrical accoutrements...