Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the guards, the Olympic esprit, arising from the ideal of bringing the youth of the world together, still lives in the Olympic Village. A free game room filled with the latest in pinball machines and electronic games does a brisk business. TILT is an international language. A disco with ear-numbing banks of speakers and flashing lights is in full shriek at night. In the main courtyard of the Olympic Village, the flags of the I.O.C., the Lake Placid symbol and the 37 countries represented at the Winter Games, snap in the wind against a winter sky. Below, athletes...
...Shields and Yarnell, and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in roles as animals and other fable characters, they present allegories for modern business situations that cannot be considered "subtle." The fables are hard-driving. One declares that "nothing cripples innovation and enterprise like heavy-handed regulation." Another describes an ideal society of animals, played by Lar Lubovitch dancers in sparkling and outlandish costumes. The storyteller for the three-minute dance-and-cartoon visual presentation tells of an elephant who "moves huge boulders and lifts great trees" to find watering holes for its fellow animals. The animals banish the elephant, accusing...
Such considerations as "morality, democracy and justice" are not values to be taken lightly. Harberger does not seem to recognize that massive repression, unemployment, hunger, and torture are social costs incurred by his Draconian monetarist measures. The ideal is not maximum possible efficiency within Harberger's limited econometric model, but the optimum degree of economic efficiency with the maximum freedom from suffering, persecution, and exploitation for everyone in the population...
...autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza strip, will never work out without the participation and cooperation of at least some Palestinian elements inside those territories. I believe the greater part of the population would have gladly accepted such an autonomy, not because the parameters offered are the ideal ones for them, but because this would signify the first positive step in the right direction. This would give them hope of coming out of the present impasse which now seems to be the best chance they may have. But their sentiments do not count. As long as there...
...above all to reassure themselves that they are invaluable members of society." She explains the arguments so prevalent today for "a return to core courses, grand syntheses of ethincs and history, morality and nature,' as the outcome of professional insecurity. Thus, the result of the Sixties is that the ideal of disinterested scholarship has been replaced by "the image of the professor who can inculcate values in the hearts and minds of the young...