Word: idealize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Falkman, inquisitiveness has been the key to good diplomacy. "The ideal diplomat is the person who is curious about foreign countries and who is attentive to the world around him and at the same time represents his own country's interests...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Gay and Lesbian Students Association feels that any university administration should consider the needs and concerns of students at every level of decision-making. However, we are also aware that at Harvard this ideal is not always reached. It has taken many long years of struggle with the Harvard administration to obtain a University policy of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation that defends our basic rights as members of the University community...
...fear was that reality would increasingly approach the ideal. Inevitable advances in the technology of control would see to that. What we have learned in the interim, however, is that, technology or not, control is more difficult and the spirit of resistance more resilient than anyone had imagined...
...lesson of the 30 years since is that humanity in all its ordinariness and contrariness is more corrosive to the totalitarianism ideal than heroism. There is too much to control. Not even the technology of repression can keep up with all the private wants and longings that move people to everything from religious faith to sullen cynicism...
None were more aware of this peril than the great totalitarians themselves. Hence Mao's desperate attempt to rekindle the flame with the Cultural Revolution. Only permanent revolution can meet the totalitarian ideal, and permanent revolution is impossible. Even tyranny needs its sleep...