Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet individuals mostly, each supposedly filling a pocket of French life. There are three comedians, who turn out to have nothing in common except that they "take defenseless little children seriously. "There are lovers ("The French are moving towards a society of pals, away from an ideal of passion.") There are workers and scattered archetypes: the bourgeois Plane Bourcel who fears the rise of laziness, or "je m'en foutisme"; the Duc de Brossac who does not know the meaning of the word meritocracy. More often, Zeldin offers type and then shatters it (we discover that Brigitte Bardot likes "looking...
Subilety and craftiness prevail throughout most of Arbatov's discussion of U.S. Soviet relations in The Soviet Viewpoint. Using the question answer format to its greatest advantage....Viewpoint provides an ideal forum for Arbatov to demonstrate--often convincingly--that the recent cooling off in relations between the superpowers is largely the fault of the United States...
...graceful, two-handed vault over a chain-link fence. Their camaraderie is familial, embracing, unselfconsciously homoerotic. Left to their better selves, they can easily go all moony over sunsets, quote great swatches of Robert Frost verse, or fall innocently asleep in each other's arms. Their ideal world is both a womb and a locker room; no women need apply to this dreamy brother hood. With its soft, silvery lighting, its slow fades and dissolves and a lush score (by Carmine Coppola, the director's father), The Outsiders means to create the greasers' dream world even...
...system was thrown into question last year by a study revealing significant differences across the Houses in the academic performance, athletic participation, and racial composition of residents. Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 voiced concern that some Houses fell short of the 'microcosm of the College" ideal envisioned for each House when the House system was founded in the early 1930s, and some administrators began talking about restructuring the housing assignment system...
More than eight months before the Breakers' opening kickoff last weekend at Boston University's Nickerson Field, the new franchise initiated negotiations with Harvard over the use of the Stadium as the town's home field. Harvard Stadium was seen by the Breakers as ideal in size and accessibility...