Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left is going to mount an offensive, December would be an almost ideal month. It is harvest time for major export crops-coffee, sugar cane and cotton-and disruption in the fields could deal the shaky economy a crippling blow. Leftists are also concerned that the going may get rougher after Ronald Reagan's Inauguration in January. Reagan aides have promised that the new Administration will support the junta and the army against the leftists. In addition, a report by Reagan's State Department transition team proposed changes that would curtail the influence of social reformers throughout Latin...
...area, have trouble finding housing. "I had no idea where to look for an apartment in Boston and I didn't want to face the hassle of trying to find one, especially once school started," Ryan says. And Vanderbilt's location--directly across from the main classroom buildings--is ideal for students spending nine hours a day in class and much of the rest of their time studying. It's nice to be able to roll out of bed at 8:29 for an 8:30 class. But after a while, most students find that the disadvantages of Vanderbilt begin...
Michael Halberstam did everything in his 48 years the same way he played hockey--intensely. A foremost physician, a noted author, and a determined athlete, Halberstam was the realization of an elusive ideal, the true renaissance man. "Nothing is wasted and every experience is used at least once," he once said; and the relish with which he approached the projects he worked on--including his practice as a foremost cardiology specialist and his well-received novel, The Wanting of A. L. Levine--put his credo onto practice...
...process by which Reagan is choosing his Cabinet is revealing of the man and his methods. He has entrusted the talent hunt to old friends with whom he feels comfortable and has given them a great deal of leeway. In Reagan's eyes, Smith is the ideal man to head such a committee. A successful Los Angeles lawyer-he could become Attorney General-Smith is respected by his peers for his intelligence and integrity, and for his ability to stand up to Reagan, when need be. A man who has served on dozens of corporate, educational and cultural boards...
...fans, and ought to attract some aesthetes who had dismissed him as a lightweight; he has grown as a poet and musician. The idols in his world are no longer the women he loses; nor are they the misfits or the blacks and whites battling for a nonexistent ideal. Instead, he praises the kids who have gone 'beat crazy'. By living in music, dressing as they please, and ignoring the world's attempts to involve them in World War III, they prove to be the only one pursuing attainable (if limited) goals. Thanks to Jackson's persistence in delineating...