Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fanciful ideal that morality and politics can exist in two separate spheres has recently been shattered. Last month the FBI revealed to the public that the Chinese government may have attempted to influence Congress and the Clinton Administration by contributing to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and individual politicians...
...doctor (Zach Grenier) as he tries to help a dying aids patient (Juan Carlos Hernandez) commit suicide. TV would have turned this into a moralistic issue drama about the right to die. Under Rabe's focused gaze, it becomes a cold-eyed look at what happens when that noble ideal runs up against fallible human beings. Rabe--who in the 1970s wrote big, impassioned plays about Vietnam (Streamers)--works on a much smaller canvas here. He immerses us in clinical details--like the doctor's careful instructions on how to take a fatal dose of pills (one at a time...
...about the messy business of explaining their mistake and justifying their extreme response. Officials explained that the report, received from a credible source (the description "credible" was repeated numerous times--justifications, Dr. Freud?), came only a few days before the fourth anniversary of the shootout near Waco, Tex., an ideal time for another incident. Furthermore, William Carter, spokesperson for the F.B.I. in Washington explained, "Recent tragedies resulting from criminal terrorist acts require a heightened vigilance...
...think the space is ideal. It's highly visible, comfortable, convenient space," said Thomas P. Windom '00, the Undergraduate Council representative to the Loker Advisory Committee...
...more galling, then, when Tisdale switches tactics at the very end of her piece and champions the Barnes & Noble bookstore as the ideal library. But what is Barnes & Noble but a quintessential marketplace...