Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadly effects. Usually the language is willfully neutral: one shell that spews out steel pellets is merely "useful to engage massed infantry at close quarters." But peddler's enthusiasm can overcome the technocratic blankness. A 105-mm artillery piece is "robust" and its "lethal punch" is thus "ideal for use in tough limited war conditions in all climates." One transport is a "tough, roomy, dependable" aircraft, and the catalogue says of the AEL 4111 Snipe aerial drone for antiaircraft gunners: "The morale effect on weapons crews who are able to see their target destroyed is incalculable...
...about 1900 on, European modernism in architecture was imbued with American imagery, preoccupied with issues that became central to the International Style. The Grid, the load-bearing frame and light skin of the new buildings, came to Europe from the Chicago School, whose leader was Louis Sullivan. The Bauhaus ideal of the open plan was transmitted to Germany by Frank Lloyd Wright. Adolf Loos' messianic rejection of ornament in the early 1900s, which became such a fetish with the International Stylists, came straight out of his infatuation with American machine culture. Le Corbusier derived a good deal...
...their lack of open space, planners have overlooked for decades this notion of returning the streets to a variety of human uses. The now no-longer modern movement in architecture and city planning attempted to resolve the conflict between cars and people by abolishing the street altogether. The modern ideal was Le Corbusier's dream of The Radiant City, which consisted of skyscrapers spaced far apart in a huge park, pierced by superhighways. The trouble was, of course, that the park too easily turned into a parking lot. The concept, which guided much urban renewal in the United States...
...Buddy, his doctor and his lawyer--who also happen to be his best friends--set out to find the ideal surrogate mate. And although the advertisements for this film somewhat distastefully portray Burt Reynolds claiming "He wants you to have his baby," Buddy is not about to settle for anyone. The screening process for the mother-to-be provides some of the movie's most humorous moments, including a disgustingly (not sexually) funny scene in a butcher shop with Toni Kalem and an exquisite sequence of events with the striking Lauren Hutton. From the start, however, it is too obvious...
...vote method may work sometimes, but when the majority fails to respect the minority, then a new representative process must be arranged. Of course, the democratic ideal should not be shunted aside on every minor occasion; nevertheless, when it will destroy much-needed organizations, it must be abrogated. In the case of the BSA, GSA and AAA, democratic representation in the council could condemn their organizations to continue to rely on small, self-raised funds. This must not be allowed; in fact their growth is so paramount that almost any method however heretical must be used to promote these institutions...