Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heroes set a standard for the rest of us. The value of revering heroes does not lie in attaining such a standard. Most of us won't. It lies in the strivings to which their heroic ideal inspires the rest...
With the new tax law making charitable giving less attractive, Stanford's timing may not be ideal. But President Donald Kennedy argues that federal budget cuts and rising costs leave schools like his little choice. "Everybody is running hard and not quite staying even," he says. Stanford broke the $100 million fund-raising barrier in 1960 and was the first to crack $300 million in 1977. "I have some antibodies to the word billion in this connection," Kennedy admits. "Maybe the next word is greedy. But what we're hoping is that the next word is audacious...
...into passionate sex. Lady C.'s erotic enthusiasm caused D.H. Lawrence's novel to be banned as obscene not so long ago; the book was finally cleared in the U.S. in 1959. By then it could take its place on shelves crowded with explicit fiction that celebrated the new ideal of sexual behavior it had helped to inspire. Freedom, spontaneity, pleasure without guilt became the bywords of the liberated '60s and '70s, as many men and women evolved freewheeling rituals of courtship in singles bars, in casual affairs and in relationships in which the outcomes remained insouciantly negotiable...
Through tricks such as accentuated shadows, water on key body parts and hundreds of shots, photographers create an impossibly ideal female body. Each year this obsession with women's looks causes a group to protest the swimsuit issue as sexist and exploitative, while another group counters that the magazine is harmless...
Vice President for Governmental and Public Affairs John Shattuck's perfect Valentine's Day certainly fits Daly's ideal, " My idea of a perfect Valentine's Day is leaving the office at 9:01 a.m. and spending the whole day with my wife," he says...