Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon have to be closed down. As in other blighted areas, the physical wasteland has become a political minefield. President Marcos' wife Imelda perplexed compatriots in May by reportedly pressing the government into phasing out its $320 million U.S. food-assistance program. Citing her husband's ideal of "self-reliance through self-help," the First Lady declared: "There's no reason why the Philippines, which produces enough food, should import from or depend on foreign sources for its food supplies." Among those contesting such logic was Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila. Said he: "At present...
This recipe could hardly be less like the ideal clarity and openness of traditional American abstract painting. It sounds like a terrible mess, but it does not cook out that way, for two reasons. The first is the strength of Alexander's imagery; the second, his formal control. Since most neoexpressionist painting is given to conventional signs for intensity but lacks formal rigor (a gut pile without shape), Alexander's work repays inspection...
...those committed in the name of religion and morality should also be remembered-for example, the Crusades. It is not secularization or moral relativism that has created the horrors of our age, but rather mankind's consistent willingness to sacrifice a fellow being for the sake of some ideal, be it secular or religious...
...today. Shivers went through Aspen's packed music tent last week (and not only because of the 30° F weather) when Peter Blake, chairman of the department of architecture and planning at Catholic University of America, showed slides of the future as envisioned in the past. The "ideal cities" of Leonardo da Vinci or Etienne-Louis Boullée, although devoid of people, were at least images of fantastic beauty. The modern future, as imagined by Antonio Sant Elia in 1914, Ludwig Hilberseimer in 1928 and Le Corbusier in 1934, has a nightmarish, totalitarian quality, akin to George...
...Aspen conference would seem to be an ideal place to focus this notion into a vision. It was started by Walter Paepcke, chairman of the Container Corp. of America, as part of an effort to turn the half-forgotten Rocky Mountain mining town into a chic culture and vacation resort. Paepcke was one of the few U.S. industrialists who believed in design excellence in architecture, industrial products and graphics. With Herbert Bayer, the Bauhaus designer, he created the corporate image of his company and set the tone for the Aspen conference. Imperceptibly, the conference, in turn, set the tone...