Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William Griffith, Professor of International Relations at MIT, advocated a more cautious approach to American foreign policy. Griffith said that the ideal foreign policy blends human rights and "realpolitik," but that "there can be no firm decisions as to the mixture." He added, however, that individuals can--and should--deviate from governmental decisions...
...used his ex-wife as evidence against him later, and when the sister proved her loyalty enough to become a Red Guard member, she faced the anguish of finding that her new political group persecuted families such as hers. Always, the Liangs did their best to fulfill the communist ideal, but the family continued to suffer the scorn of society...
This general fervor has miraculously persisted in China through years of ideological flux. The Chinese government's efforts to form a model communist state are thwarted for the same reason Liang's father could not fulfill the communist ideal: the ideal keeps changing. Liang follows his father's tribulations with a deep filial love that prevents acrid criticism. With the same concern, he describes China's painful progress through successive "revolutions", criticizing particular people and policies, but never attacking the system that allows such "revolutions...
...Soviet agents in Ottawa, one Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, who remains anonymous, seemed an ideal "mole" for penetrating the Canadian security service. They wooed him assiduously. Details for secret meetings were passed inside a hollow stick or in a specially designed pack of Marlboro cigarettes. A piece of colored tape strategically placed on a pillar in a shopping center would also signal a rendezvous. Over a nine-month period the Mountie received $30,500; then Canadian police blew the whistle. The case proved to be a classic counterespionage sting. After the Soviets tried to recruit him, the Mountie...
Nobody seeks to abolish the exchanges for serious surveys, definitive retrospectives and similar events. How one would like to see the Deposition as the climax of a Caravaggio retrospective, or the Apollo Belvedere as the focus of a show that intelligently explored the workings of the neoclassical ideal! But it is time for the international museum community to give a lot more thought to which journeys are really necessary, which shows justify great loans, and which ones are merely totemic...