Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ALWAYS cherished the ideal of undying love. Even if hidden in some sanctum of the mind or heart, immutable fidelity can redeem life's most tragic events or a person's most serious character flaws. Without this great love, the inspiration behind the sonnets of Shakespeare and Rilke, man is reduced to animal, functional but not transcendant, efficacious but not lasting...
...thinking, but one would think that someone with the title of Dean of the College would want to make his presence known as a receptive individual and one willing to take student concerns into account before making hard and fast policy. Without question, Fox has moved closer to that ideal in the two years since the council has been around. But in general, people who know him say John Fox engenders a sense of suspicion more than assurance, making him someone hard to approach and his office one unreasonably detached in understanding and reality from those who should feel most...
...Romanov might be the ideal age to please both the old guard and younger Politburo members. Yet Romanov, the secretary in charge of heavy industry and the military, has apparently not gained much in political clout or influence lately. Also, his Leningrad background is a handicap in the Moscow-centered world of Kremlin politics. Nonetheless he remains a major candidate in the eyes of many analysts, on the basis of having avoided appointment as the successor to Defense Minister Ustinov, a job that would probably have taken Romanov out of contention for party leadership...
...FASCINATING TRAP for intellectuals is that by thinking about sex and fashion, you 'crew yourself up. Modern men and women would like to obliterate the differences that appear to be the cause of sexual competition. Hence the ready acceptance of an androgynous ideal by people who make a living thinking about these things...
...trendsetters of the world, narcissists constantly fine-tuning their images, are always susceptible so any intellectual defense for self-display. The irony of the androgynous ideal is that a contradicts that basic purpose of careful dressing: attracting the admirable sexual partners. The 1980's androgyny fad is merely a brief fashion span of the anxious and the outrageous, one that will go the way of leather miniskirts and spiked hair does...