Word: idealize
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Last, we can foresee a final danger for the new public service fund. On the surface it appears an ideal antidote to the selfish image of yuppiedom; but what is there to stop the eager Morgan Stanley recruit from padding his or her resume with public service activities, now that these seem have been deemed de rigueur? Granted, anyone with half a heart would do some good along the way--once again not something to be belittled--but such a situation would hardly be ideal. Far better, perhaps, is the approach taken by Vanderbilt University, which instituted a public service...
Visitors to the Boston area seek out Harvard sweatshirts as ideal souvenirs, said Sandy M. Pochapin, sales promotion director for the Coop...
While his 6-ft., 2-in., 205-lb. frame is ideal for a linebacker, Wilkinson didn't always Lover behind the big boys on the defensive line. In fact, Wilkinson once slugged it out in the trenches himself...
...BOTH PLAYS, the actors aptly demonstrate their flexibility with character changes, but they excel most in hamming. Cannon, for example, tries too hard to aspire to the dramatic ideal of Macbeth but does well as the frustrated and displaced Landovsky. Kimberly Estes performs vigorously whether she is Mrs. Dogg or the nagging "Jewish mother" Gertrude in Hamlet or the cunning Lady Macbeth...
What a shame. It was part of the original American ideal--or so it will here be claimed, since original American ideals are a dime a dozen these days and worth half of that--that Americans were essentially good. City on a hill and all that. Moreover, our Founding Fathers reasoned--listen up, Ed Meese--that if one Man is good, and one Man can only be in one place at one time, then if you stuck seven or eight million specimens of Man on to that same one space at one time, things would be even jollier...