Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...becoming a potentially hostile leftist state. The contras must not be allowed to stand in the way of a settlement with Nicaragua, should one become possible, and American aid to their cause should not extend to such stupidities as mining Nicaraguan ports. But the contras are fighting for an ideal, and the U.S., after arming, training and encouraging them, cannot suddenly abandon them to their fates...
...clubs are sexist by historical tradition, not by intentional malice--just as Harvard was a few years ago. Harvard has gradually been moving to the ideal of equality from men and women, and it is this example that must be followed. Final clubs do not admit women and therefore, by definition, are sexist, a gradual integration of women into the clubs is a good and necessary thing. However, now is not the time for those pseudo-idealists who profess a fundamental "opposition" to all the world's evils, to jump on the Pi Ett condemnation bandwagon in order to "expose...
This, then, is the true message of the Pi Eta affair, and it is a sad one, for no one now knows whom to trust. The only security is within our own group, and this makes a mockery of the ideal of a diverse, interacting community, within which all learn from each other. The message of separatism and mistrust which we have all heard in the past week will, with luck, force our community to address these problems, and for this we should perhaps thank the Pi for bringing the existing tensions into the open, and allowing them...
...School students solely interested in teaching, the school, which produces far more administrators than teachers, may still not be the ideal place to study...
Even by New Haven standards the conditions were unusual, but they were nothing less than ideal for the natives...