Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indeed ideal guerrilla country: dense scrub and jungle interspersed with small farms, low stone walls everywhere. The coffee trees are in bloom, but most of the farms are deserted. The soldiers had prepared for combat that morning by cleaning all their weapons. The officers, who have few privileges, saw to their own. Most carried the West German-made G3 automatic rifle. Young Lieut. Eliu knelt down with his squad and uttered his own simple prebattle invocation: "God, look after us and make us act with justice and rectitude and not be driven by our emotions...
...those rhythmical, abstract spirals, like vast shavings from a plane, that emanate from the tumbling mountain, the exploding lake and the destroying clouds, Leonardo found his sign for the dissolution of all matter: infinite energy, seen with detachment. These were his final answer to the Renaissance ideal of man as the measure of all things, and to the comforting delusion that human beings occupy the center of the universe. Michelangelo took a whole fresco to describe the end of the world-one kind of achievement. Leonardo managed to put it, so to speak, on the back of a postcard, which...
...ensemble began as the dream of a few close friends, most with Juilliard backgrounds, who had been freelancing around the new-music scene in New York City. "We would fantasize about the ideal group," Pianist Ursula Oppens told TIME'S Nancy Newman. "It would have infinite rehearsal time to prepare wonderful pieces and play them wonderfully." A pair of concerts at Manhattan's Public Theater early in 1971 and a six-week residency at Dartmouth that summer convinced them that there was a market for their dream. With the acquisition of a manager, Speculum...
Thanks to modern mass marketing, the lunacy quotient may be far higher with the cube. Ideal Toy Corp., which makes the cube under an agreement with a Hungarian state manufacturing company, produced 4.5 million last year (retail price: $6 to $10) and expects to sell far more in 1981. Other companies are manufacturing and distributing versions of the cube, while pirated editions are being turned out in Taiwan and Hong Kong...
Senior citizens are the ideal people to work for change because "they have nothing to lose," she said, adding, "the old can provide the continuing social analysis America needs...