Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact in an opinion poll taken of the club's membership this autumn, 67.6 percent of the respondents opposed a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion. The Republican Club is conservative by Harvard standards in that it promotes the ideal of freedom by limiting government domestically and combatting the spread of communism internationally, views shared by most Americans. In my opinion and that of some two-thirds of the club, the ideal of freedom includes a right to choice on the abortion issue free from legislative coercion...
...Brancusi--hailed his work because of its fierce, astringent poetry, but also because it seemed to have predicted their own conscious concerns: the interest in popular art like the prints known as images d'Epinal, the invented exoticism, the mode of composition in flat planes, but above all the ideal of the untutored eye unobstructed by academic culture, registering the world with the clarity, as the cliche used to run, "of a child or a savage." Rousseau's innocence might have been invented to refresh the culturally burdened. There you are, it declared: late industrialism...
...stifled the kind of ingenuity and spontaneous assertion that the new Soviet leader now sees as necessary to revitalize his country's economy and society. Says Zdenek Mlynar, a former top Communist Party official in Czechoslovakia who emigrated to Austria in 1977: "The type of human being ideal for the Soviet system is an obedient and reliable person, carrying out orders and directives but devoid of initiative and responsibility." Unlike the Chinese, the Soviets are not inclined to tamper significantly with the basic premises of their system. Gorbachev's ideological instincts appear to be no different from those...
...advice, SASC members and others insist that Harvard is worth pressuring, "Harvard is first and foremost an educational institution, the purpose of which is to inquire for truths. Nothing runs more counter to this ideal than supporting a country that operates on lies, on slavery and genocide," says current SASC member and Black Students Association Vice-President Anthony A. Ball '86. "We focus on Harvard because Harvard is a national issue ... and other schools care about what Harvard is thinking...
...apparent how such a committee would work or, indeed, whether it could be made to work at all. Who would choose the committee? How would they vote--by majority or by unanimity? Pragmatic questions, such as these are too often ignored for the sake of a lofty ideal...