Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cunning for the screen. His Emmett Kelly face sags under the weight of compromise, drains of life, wears anguish like a Distinguished Service Cross. These roles inevitably win Lemmon Oscar nominations (three in the past five years), but this time he might even deserve one. Father Farley is an ideal Lemmon subject: the entertainer at mid-life crisis, with all attendant weary routines and stutter-step timing, and a love-hate relationship with his audience and himself. Lemmon's trademarked excesses are part of the character; they play off Ivanek's imploding edginess in a generational combat...
...date careerist pursued by ancient demons. Marius rates him as "the greatest English storyteller between Chaucer and Shakespeare." The wit and irony that would soon mark the best Elizabethan playwrights already distinguished More. Like his friend Erasmus, More revered classical Greece. His masterpiece, Utopia (1516), a fantasy of the ideal commonwealth, imagined human beings so perfectly ruled by logic that they were happy to own no property and to labor modestly and endlessly for the common good...
Even the climate for investing appears to be ideal. The once anemic British stock market has bounced back smartly during the past six weeks, with one leading index hitting a record. Interest rates have dropped...
...cost is quite feasible in a trillion-dollar economy. For the Federal Government, the gigantic bill would represent only about 3% of the budget deficit, the price of three Trident submarines, or about half of what is spent annually on bridge and highway repair. And until fairly recently, the ideal of good medical care for every citizen was proclaimed to be a top national priority. "The fulfillment of our national purpose," Congress rather grandly declared in 1966, "depends on promoting and assuring the highest level of health attainable for every person...
Adding that the former Lesley Ellis School was "an ideal spot" for senior citizen housing because it is near public transportation and Harvard Square, the first-term mayor said there are no other such housing facilities in the area for old people...