Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...career building up the defense industry, Ustinov is keenly aware of the chronic bottlenecks in Soviet production that have accounted for sluggish economic growth. Should the ruling elite feel nervous about turning the Soviet Union's pressing agenda of problems over to an unseasoned "youth," Ustinov might prove an ideal choice as a regent in a transitional regime...
...even as he does, it will be behind him. "I'll carry the flag," he says brightly, but adds ruefully, "if I'm able to by then." Of the 49 teams there, the winter record by twelve, is there one that is more representative of the Olympic ideal than the Puerto Rican...
Charmed lives are probably more entertaining to lead than to read about. The ideal subject of a biography is someone who has succeeded at something, but at a pretty stiff price; the story of such a person inspires both envy ("I could not wage war on most of Europe") and the soothing balm of pity ("What a wretched place Elba must have been"). Yet there are some rare souls on whom fortune constantly grins. Their set-backs turn out to be short outs to triumph; their disappointments in love prepare them for the mate of their dreams. Money, fame...
Having responded to several criticisms and attempted to identify international language as a humanist ideal. I will now turn to the specific here-and-now issue of what the new humanist group at Harvard might do in relation to this. The specificity owes to the fact that there is something worthwhile that students can succeed in doing, but that unaffiliated adults--even alumni--cannot. Following a through exploration of the area, perhaps by committee and or in conjunction with the Esperanto seminar beginning in February, they can campaign for the acceptance of Esperanto as a legitimate means of satisfying...
...from the film's opening scenes, where Sarandon burns toast and Dreyfuss battles with his talking scale, The Buddy System leaves little to the audience's imagination. We know before Wheaton ever meets his ideal father that Dreyfuss will play Daddy Warbucks and take the kid under his wing, and that Sarandon will become his new playmate. The plot ostensibly thickens when Dreyfuss's old girlfriend--a mindless blonde who parrots '60s cliches--returns. But the audience has little doubt that everything will somehow work out when the three are seen happily planting tomatoes in the garden...