Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier in the century, she said, architects attempted to create the ideal home design which would resist the trends of fashion. When they found that their designs failed to take into account the nature of economy, which is based on built-in obsolescence, most turned to the production of "a set of aesthetic exercises," she added...
...engineers, the creators of computerized intelligence and all of those who try to see and act on the world as God might. They use their newfound omniscience without allowing any moral authority to guide their acts. The result is social fragmentation, lack of direction and the absence of final ideal goals. One wonders to which of his protagonists Goodwin is more sympathetic...
...fact that Lady Diana was such an ideal choice to play her magisterial role contributed greatly to what I recall was the giddiness, even the magic, of the occasion. She was beautiful, she was young, and she was-in every sense of the word-fresh. Much was made of her virginity at the time-the very notion having become, by then, something of an antique novelty and perhaps, in some circles, even an embarrassment-and the palace did all it could to keep Lady Diana unspoiled. No interviews. Not too much exposure. But Lady Diana had a mind...
Presumably, too, the quiet if not quite unremarkable quality of her early life, the absence of anything but a merely chronological past, brings her even closer to the royal ideal. She is only what she will become. Born to wealth and privilege, Diana Spencer, like the man she will marry, seems to have grown up at some operational distance from life. Not sheltered, exactly. Stashed away, secreted, in the protected closeness of a class and a culture. It is as if she spent every day of her nearly 20 years snug within the emphatic stillness of an English Sunday afternoon...
...typical example of Fellini's delicacy of touch; the feminist storm troopers and the dream-within-the-dream (set, of course, in a carnival) are yet to come. In the end his Don Juan learns what all Don Juans have learned: that they are searching for an ideal woman who does not, cannot exist; that they are thus doomed to a lovelessness that makes a mockery of their extraordinary exertions in the craft of love. There are easier ways to make so banal a point...