Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dozen years ago, Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois seemed an ideal presidential prospect. Gifted with patrician good looks and a rich, sonorous voice, Percy, by the end of his first Senate term in 1972, had earned a solid reputation as an independent-minded Republican in the progressive Rockefeller mold. But his star soon stopped soaring. A stodgy campaigner, he made a tentative presidential bid in 1976 and nearly lost his 1978 Senate race to a little-known Democrat, Attorney Alex Seith. Trying to keep pace with America's growing conservatism, Percy changed his stands on economic issues, foreign...
...delayed legacy of the old team that went out together was this young team that grew up together, and grew up in the major leagues. Strength through the middle is baseball's eternal ideal, and the model today is the Tigers' Catcher Lance Parrish, Shortstop Alan Trammell, Second Baseman Lou Whitaker and Centerfielder Chet Lemon. Probably it has to do with the nature of runaway races, but none of them seems quite as considerable now as he did in the spring or even last year. Trammell hit over .300 but missed more than 20 games without being missed...
Such spin-offs as fan clubs, lunch boxes and watches are being added to spur interest. Ideal (ten nonconvertible Robo Force figures such as Cruel and Vulgar) even issues a slick, 90-page magazine with feature articles on robotics and the future...
...feeble in its efforts to protect free speech." On a day-to-day basis, free speech is not threatened, says Herrnstein, who recalls that he had to call in Cambridge and Harvard Police to try to keep order in his classroom. But in the controversial cases that put the ideal of free speech to the test, like Weinberger's visit, Harvard is pusillanimous, Herrnstein charges...
Against lush backdrops of the Viennese court, Tom Hulce creates an energetic Mozart, frivolous on all concerns save music. As Saleri, F. Murray Abraham creates an ideal counterpart: a composer as measured, reasonable, and altogether average as his rival is extraordinary. Their prickly relationship reaches a moving climax in the film's final minutes, with a scene that mesmerizingly unravels the fabric of admiration and betrayal between...