Word: idealizations
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...French couturier of his generation, died in Paris on Sunday. He was 71. Saint Laurent, who retired from fashion in 2002 because, he said, it had been "reduced to mere window-dressing," was widely considered the father of democratized fashion and the designer most often associated with the feminist ideal of empowerment in the 1970s...
...Harvard undergraduate housing system, initiated in 1931 under University President Abbott L. Lowell, class of 1877, was an ideal solution for student life, but inevitably presented the University with ongoing structural considerations. Housing renovations are nearly as old as the Houses themselves—simply put, from the moment a building is finished, it is on a slow, but sure, path towards deterioration...
...What kind of workplace is an ideal ROWE candidate...
...children who need them regardless of race, but also by supporting adoptive families with consideration for their ethnic make-up. Says Pertman: "Nobody's saying black kids shouldn't have white parents, but does anybody really think we live in a fully color-blind society? It's a nice ideal but it's not reality...
...they have to respect it? No, because that's where parents can and do have some authority over their children, and they absolutely need to know where he is and what he's doing. One of the difficulties of boys joining gangs is that they often celebrate an ideal of who can be the most ruthless, the most destructive, the most violent. There's this violent ideal that boys can fall into, and by following that ideal it sort of assuages their negative self-feelings. Absolutely this is a time to intervene, while at the same time trying to find...