Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ideal of free speech holds where all ideas are given an equal hearing in the "marketplace." This ideal, however, is not reality, those with views that do not receive attention are forced to present their ideas where and when they can. Free speech and the debate of ideas has never been the real linchpin of our political system. The current administration expresses its view of democracy starkly by stating that it has a mandate from the American people, though it was elected by a slim margin. Administration officials also said that the half-million protestors in Central Park last year...
...seem like callousness and overreaction to link the tragedy at The Game to betting a couple of bucks on the Raiders-Jets game. But both come from a distortion of what the game is supposed to be, an athletic contest between equals. That ideal is so far lost that speeches about sportsmanship and the spirit of competition are universally scoffed. They are cliches, but only because the message isn't getting through...
Carter and Ford listened intently, took notes and occasionally steered the discussion back on track. In the process, they demonstrated that such "consultations," which the Carter Center hopes to hold regularly, are an ideal activity for former Presidents still concerned about the problems of the world...
...midpoint, when Yentl's thoughts turn from intellectual to sexual love, the songs are swimming strongly in the American pop mainstream. It is the most romantic, coherent and sophisticated original movie score since Gigi a quarter-century ago; and its treacherous glissandi and searching wit find their ideal interpreter in Streisand's incredible Flexible Flyer of a voice. After two decades of hard work, that voice is still as smooth as mercury poured over...
...with the accusation that there is a little of Snider in all of us, that given a choice between a picture of Dorothy and the real thing, you'll take the snapshot, and make her into an object of your slavering fantasies, judging her only against Playboy's photo ideal of the perfectly formed "girl next door." Many tribal groups refuse to have their pictures taken, believing that the photographer captures the subject's soul along with the image. Fosse implies that you replace Dorothy's soul with her static image, and rebuild her personality with your own dark fantasies...