Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carried his culture in one portable labyrinth on his back, as if he were a rambling snail, it was Kandinsky. And while he did not invent abstract art on his own (as he and his admirers were given to claim), he certainly did more to promote the notion of ideal abstraction, in those distant years before World War I, than any other European artist...
...California is now. It was Mme. Blavatsky's opinion that before long the material world would vanish, leaving behind its "essence," a world of spirit. Elect souls, the survivors of this benevolent burnout, would communicate with one another in an immaterial manner whose proper art was abstract and ideal, composed of "thought-forms...
...half-timbering and a second floor jutting out over the first. It is too cute, but it is not offensive. Whatever sins have been committed on the outside have been made up for on the inside, however, where Scenic Designer Richard Hay has devised what seems to be an ideal theatrical space: 581 comfortable seats for the audience, a thrust stage for the actors, and ample room for producers and directors to change sets and scenery...
...Like It, one of Shakespeare's sunniest comedies, was an ideal first choice to show off the new house and its tenants. Directed by Executive Producer Craig Noel, who has been with the Old Globe almost since its inception in 1935, the production floats as serenely and effortlessly as the swans in the nearby zoo. Ellis Rabb, who also has a long association with the theater, is best as Jaques, that amusing figure who cherishes sadness and brags that he "can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs." Almost no one else is less than...
...these are only gargoyles on Muggeridge's religious edifice, an eccentric structure whose foundations reach back to youth. As a vaguely Christian, mildly leftist correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, he journeys to Moscow to watch Stalin's betrayals of the revolutionary ideal. Like a minute hand, he begins imperceptibly moving right. In India, he pursues an amorous concubine, then wallows in self-abnegation and awaits the imminent collapse of the British raj, ridding the country of the Muggeridge type forever. Assigned to intelligence during World War II, he regards the conflict as alternately bemusing and boring. In America...