Word: idealize
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...TOUGHEST PART of fashioning affirmative action programs is balancing the ideal of selection without discrimination with the need to allow historically underprivileged minorities to catch up to more advantaged groups. At the Law School, the Harvard Law Review recently struck this delicate balance so it could select more minority students for the staff...
Garrow's book is not only an excellent piece of scholarship. It is also a very timely reminder of what the FBI has done when it did not think anyone was watching. Ideal educational television, in fact. At the end of an hour, no viewer could fail to see exactly which side was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Book'em, Danno...
Harvard's major objection to creating such a committee is that it believes that women's studies should be incorporated in to all regular courses. While such integration would be ideal, it seems disingenuous to suggest that the same Faculty that has allowed only 16 women into its ranks will be much more receptive to women's perspectives in the near future. Harvard has four years to convince the world that its low-key, integrative approach would work. Yet it has done virtually nothing...
Through two hundred years and four major periods of reform fervor, the history of progresive reform is, apparently, the history of much reform but modest progress. Reform seems ephemeral, privilege reincarnate, and the realization of the democratic ideal only marginally closer in 1976 than...
Oliver said that the program is devoted to the Jeffersonian ideal of a link between "the world of ideas and the world of affairs. The idea here is to show that humanities indeed have some thing to contribute" to public affairs...