Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delivery systems. Both Harvard and MIT have regulations against such research and neither would be affected by the legislation. It must also be remembered that nuclear weapons research is shrouded in tight secrecy which is a far cry from the free communication of ideas and information which is the ideal of academic inquiry...
Nixon would raise Latin America to top priority. Our policy there since World War II, he writes, "has been inadequate, inept, and worst of all plagued by fitful starts and stop." In Central America, he believes, "while our current policy is not an ideal one, it is the least we can do under the circumstances...
...good shape." Glancing at the tall, slender, dark-haired woman pedaling next to him, he observes, "Any time you see a woman who knows how to sweat like that, you just gotta get to know her." The woman, A.J. Bernstein, 35, a freelance photographer, has the same ideal. "I'm not turned on by flab," she says. "Men get hostile when I take off my clothes and they discover what kind of shape I'm in. Two of them started lifting weights within a week of meeting...
...hard. You sweat. Your mind is consumed by the motion of what you are trying to do and by the pain factor. But when you stop, it's like coming down from a high." Like some proud corps of crack troops, the new Spartans are dedicated to an ideal of fitness that far surpasses conventional images of weekend joggers. "I enjoy being strong," says Houston Librarian Amy Mollberg, 39, who lifts free weights. "I have a sense of security knowing that I have the stamina and strength to do almost anything I want to do, physically...
...Revolution, while it lasted, enforced its own snobberies, its own political and even psychic pretensions. Today, snobbery is back in more familiar channels. A generation of high-gloss magazines (Connoisseur, Architectural Digest, House and Garden, for example) flourishes by telling Americans what the right look is. The American ideal of the Common Man seems to have got lost somewhere; the Jacksonian theme was overwhelmed by the postwar good life and all the dreamy addictions of the best brand names. The citizen came to be defined not so much by his political party as by his consumer preferences. It might...