Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would like, for a moment at least, to speak as an American citizen of the world. I would like to speak from the viewpoint of the international neighborhood which is unified by one fundamental, unshakeable ideal: the ideal of democracy. What this community means by "democracy" is the freedom of the individual to choose his or her private beliefs and to participate in choosing laws according to which men are equal. As I look at how American assistance abroad has sought to realize this common aspiration of man -- its heroic accomplishment in the two world wars, the Marshall Plan...
...piece, it seemed as though the responsible man was a lonely, tragic individual who can only hope that chance gives him the opportunity to change the world. But a new and creative form of humanism, an inescapably globally social humanism of all men is being born in the fundamental idealism of the NIEO Because of its youth, it is still obscured by the fog of power politics and conflicting ideologies. But it is moving its way toward the clear light of international recognition, reason, and perhaps agreement it is not blaming anyone, nor it is asking for charity...
...which, as they compete for space on the best-seller list with dead felines, make impoverished math graduate students rich. For all the collectors of bottomless ashtrays, Rubik's Cubes now come in monocolored and multicolored, but two faced, models, neither of which encloses a solution. The success of ideal Toy Corporation resembles, that of the Grot Company, a creation of British television Grot sells only useless things. After the sales of Rubik's Cube and its various geometrically precise successors decline, American industry will step up the production of rungless ladders...
...option for the college to improve undergraduate life. Most administrators concur that any system that makes two Houses 3 percent Black and another 17 percent Black, a system that allows one House to have 45 percent varsity athletes while another has 4.7 percent is a far cry from the ideal House that would be a microcosm of the College. Reliance on the preferential lottery also builds up and reinforces House stereotypes, adds to the frustration of those sent to undesired Houses, and makes real contact between disparate groups decidedly less likely. All in the name of preserving "student rights...
IRONIES ABOUND, TOO, on the home front. Harvard, more than its Ivy rivals, stresses its commitment to Houses that are representative of the College; paradoxically, its preferential lottery insures that stereotypes will surround individual Houses and destroy the ideal of the microcosm. Harvard, in the words of Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, feels its free-choice system "helps to increase student satisfaction with their assignment," yet the one of five students sent to undesired Houses--ones where the racial group to which they belong may be proportionately outnumbered--no doubt feels more embittered than Yale's randomly assigned...