Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very much hope to carry the ideal of my husband the same way that the Kennedy School and the John F. Kennedy Library keep alive the ideals and hopes of President Kennedy," Rabin said...
...really an ideal introduction for people who want to learn about music but don't know much about it," she says. "It's a way to make classical music accessible...
...current political apathy that many Americans exhibit is disturbing. In other nations, crusaders are fighting for the right to vote. The ideal of free and fair elections is still a cruel joke under many regimes. Yet, Americans frequently take their electoral rights and responsibilities for granted. Even worse, many Americans who are constantly complain about their government do not actually vote. How can those who do not vote expect their criticism to be taken seriously...
...more than the cost of cleaning the Great Hall, an historic interior space of remarkable beauty, respected and even revered as such by countless architects, historians, architectural historians and other experts in such matters (though no, to be sure, by Mr. Campbell) which would instantly provide an ideal setting--something Harvard could certainly use--for the grandest, most solemn and most joyous occasions (as well as ordinary ones) and also, quite possibly most important of all, a place for quiet contemplation, for receiving the inspiring messages from the past emanating from the surroundings (including, perhaps, paintings and tapestries...
...river of American politics has been dirty enough as it flowed through time. But it has been refreshed from time to time by that part of the American conscience that insists politics be a higher calling than it ever really is in practice. The ideal insists on a certain decorum of language in the mainstream and flushes out the rhetoric that does not belong there. It tends to flush out the rhetorician as well...