Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cross, a senior lecturer on education, points to "a kind of Renaissance in business" in which creative, entrepreneurial employees have become the object of corporate desire, favored over mass-produced, formula-spouting "yes men." Cross cites Steven Jobs, the founder of Apple Computers, as the prototype of the new ideal employee, and the kind of person that college faculties are failing to cultivate...
...adds that the ideal of a common culture cannot be used as a justification for a homogenous curriculum if the majority of Americans do not attend college. "If we feel a common culture is that important, how come we're letting three-fifths of our people get away without it?" Glazer asks, "I think you can be a good citizen without reading Plato...
...festival, the brainchild of Christoph Wolff, Chairman of the Music Department, will feature styles ranging from Baroque to electronic music. "I felt that it was an ideal opportunity to coordinate all of the normally uncoordinated musical activities on campus," Wolff explained...
...explained by the types of works each excelled in. "You can't really have a major Handel festival without paying attention to his operas, and the difficulties for undergraduates in putting together an opera are nearly insurmountable," Wolff explained. "If you look at Bach's works, you have an ideal repertoire that can be tapped by chamber music, choral and orchestral groups...
Although celebrity is as old as society, Schickel believes that its new malignance results from the rise of communications technology. "Over a century's span," he observes, "the proliferation of information has created a need for simplifying symbols--usually people, sometimes objects--that crystallize an issue, an ideal, a longing." Hence the crucial importance of the image factories of movies and television, and the power of still photography that inflates every incident, from atrocity to treaty signing, only to reduce it to a photo opportunity...