Word: idealizes
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...precise point of shame and bitterness when the immigrant experience persuaded him to construct a disguise. There are two great losses here. A little girl loses her father's hand in a swirling crowd. And a boy loses his way as he tries to transform himself as that American ideal...
Although the Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory rests on an arid, uninhabited mountain range 100 miles away from a city, astronomers find it an ideal spot to set up camp...
...York, 1881-1945"; Nathan E. Lump '96 for "'Thus there are devils, there are spirits': Genre, Personal Experience, and Belief in Folkloristics and the Words of a Welsh Storyteller"; Elizabeth C. Marlantes '96 for "From the Mud Hut to the Parthenon: Edith Wharton's Search for the Ideal Home"; and James N. Miller '96 for "'Between the Boycotters and the Liftgivers': A Comparative History of the Bus Boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama and Johannesburg, South Africa...
...herself and prevent Nigel from taking her son from her. This conflict will wind up, of course, in court. So does another subplot of the novel, the appearance of a strange, semipornographic novel, Babbletower, about a group of escapees from the French Revolution who try to form an ideal community and lapse instead into an orgy of violence and torture. Chapters of the novel are interspersed throughout the first half or so of Babel Tower, and when the thing is finally published, with the helping hand of Frederica, the government decides to prosecute it under the 1959 Obscene Publications...
...Franklin's candidacy did not strike all as an ideal solution. Notes an insider: "If someone had asked me several years ago if Franklin was the man to take over, honestly I would have said, 'Good luck!'" Says William Martin, Billy's biographer: "I think there was some question as to whether someone without much crusade experience was going to be able to just step in as the embodiment of the organization that for close to 50 years had the No. 1 crusade evangelist...