Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first high fashion style of the Fifties was actually created in 1947 when Christian Dior showed his first collection. Dior presented a silhouette which became known as the "New Look." Half-a-century's development of the square, mannish, waistless woman was relinquished in a moment for this new ideal of feminine chic. It consisted of a tiny, nipped waist, rounded (even padded) breasts, rounded hips, and skirts which usually swept as low as eight to twelve inches from the floor...
...University publishes a Teaching Fellow Handbook which attempts to address this issue, saying. "The relationship of the Teaching Fellowship to the Financial Aid Program of the Graduate School should not be such as to lead to systematic violation of [the ideal of TFing being a learning experience...
...members of the houses, dined there, and mixed with the students in a way that after the Second World War, with the enormous expansion of the student body, was never to be repeated in the same intimate manner. For just a few years the system came close to the ideal of an intellectual fellowship that had been Lowell's idea in the first place...
...also have to calculate gender in relation to geography. Ferraro?ethnic, big-city urban, blue collar&151;appeals to the same sorts of voters that he does, and therefore would not broaden the ticket in the traditional way. Conversely, Ferraro would, in a geographical and ethnic sense, be an ideal partner for Hart...
...stunning landscape of dormant volcanoes and twisting river gorges. That mountainous beauty, covering roughly three-quarters of the countryside, is also a national curse. With the highest population density in Central America (601 per sq. mi.), similar to that of India, El Salvador is a land that is ideal for guerrilla warfare but pitifully inadequate for the agricultural needs of its people. Salvadoran geography creates some harsh problems: Who owns the country's meager agricultural resources? How should they be put to use? These are among the most important issues in the country's civil...