Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weighing of alternative views. Paul Warnke, an able man who should know better, stated flatly that the proposed improvements in NATO long-range theatre nuclear forces provide no possible military advantage. This statement is easily challengeable. For example, the precision and remarkable accuracy of these systems could make them ideal for striking logistical "choke-points" at the rear of an attacking Soviet army...
...socialist state. Like revolutionaries of an earlier date, they are united partly by hate--not of capitalist overloads, but of distant state bureaucrats, who inflict as much pain and humiliation as any factory owner. More the unity of the oppressed than simply of labor. Solidarity represents a radical national ideal--a state where the citizens were really in control of all social facets of life. Walesa et al do not want to rid the country of socialism. They want to run the factories themselves (an idea which makes American conservative applause for the movement both hypocritical and ironic). And what...
...writer in front of the camera for a half-hour of high gossip, the writer often turns into a sly little prevaricator. Or when a Herbert Mitgang lets an author expatriate about his oeuvre in balanced prose you know no one speaks in... Writers should not be invited to "ideal" dinner parties. They ought to stay home and write...
Supply-side economics had the common-sense appeal of an old proverb, but nothing guaranteed it would work. Too much American dream, and not enough Studs Terkel, its ideal viewpoint pictured the sort of workplace the country could be, without the realities progress to that state would encounter. The numbers never did add up, and that's what made David Stockman so important. His mission as director of the Office of Management and Budget was to convince an incredulous public and Congress that the numbers would add up even if it didn't look that way. His responsibility clear from...
...junior--he discovered that his family belonged to that nebulous economic group, the 'middle-income bracket.' He was ineligible for financial aid or loans, yet his parents could not afford $10,000 dollars a year for their son's education. ROTC seemed to be the ideal solution--in addition to paying for his tuition, it would buy him his textbooks, giving him $100 a month spending money, and even send him home to Indiana a few times a year on an air force jet. Unlike other scholarships available, it could be used at any of more than 500 colleges...