Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view, the intelligent person can't accept advice--he must struggle with it," Moses says. "Proctors are there to prove people can survive Harvard and be human beings. But the ideal is pretty elusive." Lewis says, "Our goals are not particularly surprising. We try to get everybody to do better on everything." Each summer, Lewis compiles 100 pages of materials submitted by departments and offices into a freshman advising handbook. But all FDO members say the handbook does not insure that freshmen will receive good guidance...
...detached from the fray, and must resist all temptations to implement his personal vision of the just society-except to the extent that his vision is consistent with the law as it evolves in response to social changes. This self-restraint is the very soul of judicial impartiality. The ideal is to have the losing party feel that he is not the victim of the judge, but simply the object of a process that is the same...
...surprisingly, Commoner's ideas are quite influential within the party; its collective vision of the ideal society strongly reflects his ideas of a new society built around a radically restructured energy system. Commoner is a tireless advocate of solar energy as the answer to America's problems, and his analyses show how a conversion to solar energy could solve economic problems as well as the "energy crisis"--which he sees as the result of a system based on profits instead of the national interest...
...opposing faction did not deny this, but questioned Commoner's commitment to local party-building. Lucius Walker of Pennsylvania, a major figure in the camp opposed to Commoner's views, said that Commoner would be an ideal national candidate. "He's very good on the corporate and macro issues, but not so good on grass roots organizing...
...projects, the Kennedy School of Government, which draws more than one third of its teaching staff from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Kennedy School is just one example of Bok's continued encouragement of professional school growth and direction of Harvard's efforts far from the lipserved ideal of the liberal education...