Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correspondent for the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, rose to editor before becoming assistant to the publisher of the New York Times. In 1947 he joined the Post, was named editor in 1961. A staunch defender of freedom of information, Wiggins noted just a few months ago that the ideal newsman should be "a witness, not the principal, in events." With what promises to be an acrimonious U.N. session ahead of him, the new U.S. ambassador is likely to find himself serving more often as a principal than as a witness...
NOTHING is tougher than being a policeman in a free society. For one thing, the U.S. Constitution guarantees as much individual liberty as public safety will allow. To uphold that elusive ideal, the policeman is supposed to mediate family disputes that would tax a Supreme Court Justice, soothe angry ghetto Negroes despite his scant knowledge of psychology, enforce hundreds of petty laws without discrimination, and use only necessary force to bring violators before the courts. The job demands extraordinary skill, restraint and character-qualities not usually understood by either cop-hating leftists, who sound as if they want to exterminate...
...Freud, King Solomon, Hercules and Diogenes," says Rocky Pomerance, Miami Beach police chief. Indeed, the U.S. often seems lucky to have any cops at all. Plato envisaged the policeman's lofty forebear as the "guardian" of law and order and placed him near the very top of his ideal society, endowing him with special wisdom, strength and patience. The U.S. has put its guardians near the bottom. In most places, the pay for an experienced policeman is less than $7,000 a year, forcing many cops to moonlight and some to take bribes. Fear and loneliness are routine hazards...
Partly in reaction to this obvious problem, the new Food Stamps program was started several years ago. In theory, it looked ideal: depending on their incomes, families could get food stamps worth up to $100 for as $3 or $4. The stamps could then be used in grocery stores to buy what the family wanted, freeing them from the limitations of a commodities diet...
...seminars enroll about 15 students and most are taught by more than one, perhaps as many as seven tutors. "It's self-evident that I couldn't run the whole Gen Ed program this way," Wilcox says; "Mark Hopkins at the other end of the log may be ideal in educational theory, but that's not workable here." Though the added expense has not yet been computed with any precision, some faculty will probably use the financial argument to demand that house course be proved not just vaguely worthwhile, but worth an extra investment...