Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know you can't go home again?" Her question struck a chord in Wolfe's dilemma. Wolfe had hoped to be the Great American Novelist, "reminding his readers of the promise of American life, of the greatness that could still lie ahead for a nation begun with an ideal of a free man's life,...fulfilling its whole purpose in an atmosphere of free and spacious enlightenment." The promise felt, the goal defined, Wolfe nonetheless was unable to realize the essence of his self-imposed task...
...fought monopolies, defended striking workers, taught law at Harvard University, and written frequently for the New Republic. So maybe it was sheer momentum that kept him dabbling in public affairs from the bench. He remained one of Roosevelt's closest policy advisers, even though doing so offended the monastic ideal that judges must be "less worldly than others in order to be more judicial" -- as Frankfurter once...
...Gardner is not so naive that he holds up the chaotic protest of The Sunlight Man as an ideal to be striven for. It is clear by the end of The Sunlight Dialogues that it is the Clumlys of the world who have real impact, while Sunlight Men tend to burn out from their own fiery natures. We see this in the scene in which one of Clumly's officers finally apprehends The Sunlight...
...Some actors that I know in California say 'Oh you're going back to art,"' Howard says. "Basically, what it is, is going back to longer hours for less money, a lot of hard work and numerous frustrations, which is all somehow in the service of an ideal that Brustein is working on. And that is of value...
MANY PEOPLE before me have suggested that the ideal way to run the lottery would be to assign numbers to rooming scanned. The people in rooming group 330 know that if they list Adams as their second choice, it too will be full by the time everybody in the class has been consulted, and they will again be dropped to the bottom of the list. Instead, they list Dunster, in hopes that nobody listed Dunster as a "first choice house" and that space will be available when the program comes back to them...