Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deeper problems which underscore the need for a union at the retail establishment. Employees claim that oppressive monitoring, biased promotion procedures, and inconsiderate assignment of tasks and responsibilities demonstrate a general lack of dignity in the Coop's treatment of its workers. A union could serve as the ideal voice to communicate grievances and provide the dignity the employees deserve...
...some practical revolutionary function, it was as baffling as the evaporation of the American radical left after 1970. But ideas exist for as long as people use them, and by 1976 "avant-garde" was a useless concept: social reality and actual behavior had rendered it obsolete. The ideal-social renewal by cultural challenge-had lasted 100 years, and its vanishing marked the end of an entire relationship, eagerly sought but not attained, of art to life...
...seek such an audience, to think of it as the normal and proper one for avant-garde art, was to take a step back from the ideal of the artist as Public Man that had been embodied in Courbet's career. It meant running for the constituency of the exception and the misfit, not the majority. One main strand of the avantgarde, as it developed in the 19th century and bequeathed its composition to the 20th, hated crowds and democracy, wished to absent itself from the political agora, and stood on its own rights to develop in what Joyce...
Simply because much of Reagan's package is new and untested, many steadfastly oppose it, offering instead programs which they have seen proven as failures. The unknown can often be frightening, but an America where the ideal of individual liberty has been sacrificed because we lost our courage to innovate is far more terrifying...
Officials at the Cuban interest section of the Czechoslovakian Embassy in Washington yesterday identified the scholar--whom Dominguez called "perfect, just ideal" for a CFIA fellowship--as Pino Santos, author of numerous books and currently an advisor to the Cuban government on political economics and international affairs and the head of a research institute in Havana...