Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rise of Michael Jackson into the ranks of the masculine ideal has set back sex more than 40 years. Jackson and Boy George style themselves on a prepubescent standard of asexuality: George's clothes are designed to hide his pudgy, awkward body, and it is difficult to imagine Jackson possessing any genitals at all. Jackson and the Bov (impossible that the could become Man) George have warmed their way into widespread public acceptance because they are so innocuous. Something similar was at work with the early Beatles; they would never had won America's hearts had they not looked like...
Suitably qualified, Hollander's point is reasonable, Large numbers of men and women are wimping out of the battle of the sexes. The unrestrained competition for the head of Milady Fair is being slowly superceded by the ideal of two individuals discovering each other through romance. Even rock and roll and rhythm and blues, the ultimate expression of romantic attack, have been modified by the cooperative image of romantic attack, have been modified by the cooperative image of romance. One of the real secrets of hip-hop's appeal is its overt recognition that love is question of beating...
...reputations of certain first-choice Houses have led administrators like Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 to say he has "discomfort" with the current housing system in which Houses fall way short of the ideal "microcosm" of the College...
Opponents to some form of random system cite the all-American, freedom-of-choice amendment to support the current system yet one wonders if, in this case, this principle is doing more harm than good. It seems we no longer have an ideal free-choice system anyway, since anyone wanting to avoid a heavily "stereotyped" House now has very few choices...
Even some who admire Jahn's use of form wince at the materials, like the strips of aluminum and the tacky-looking colored panels, "popular" elements that confound his gestures toward the ideal. Jahn protests descriptions like "cheap" and "glitzy." "The materials look unusual, but they are not cheap," he says. "This is the type of building that takes time to digest and to understand." Indeed, the architect feels confident that he has designed a landmark. "Just wait 20 years," he grins. "Someone will try to replace the blue panels, and it won't be allowed...