Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...closing statements." Then she wrote an op-ed piece in the Journal that declared, "Leading a revolution means more than borrowing a bottle of Grecian Formula." Huffington wants Gingrich to be the nominee, though she seems willing to consider Colin Powell. "I believe only Newt Gingrich can be the ideal standard-bearer for the Republican Party at this moment," she says...
...been a perfect organization. However, it is the only worldwide forum of its kind. We should not abandon it because of petty administrative problems and thereby lose sight of its higher ideal of international peace. And until a Congress representing 50 states can run perfectly without wasteful spending and sluggishness, it can hardly expect perfection from a U.N. representing 185 sovereign nations...
...clarify their minds about integration. Time for blacks and whites to stop indulging themselves--as Farrakhan does--in separatist fantasies and to return to the text of that infinitely superior speech that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered at the march on Washington in 1963. Time to return to the ideal of an individualist, integrated, color-blind society--and to understand that that ideal will require yet more time and hard work. But perhaps I also am guilty of a sentimentality without a program. I don't know anyone of any race in multicultural and coreless America who acts...
...stuck in the tradition, passed down to us by our parents, of judging other people by their color. Try as we might, we cannot destroy the fact that, as humans, we make instantaneous judgments based on our initial impressions of others. Martin Luther King's "Dream" is an ideal, but an ideal that will never be reached, at least not until we destroy the background prejudices that pervade our subconscious...
...nature, to the artist, is like carnal desire to the saint. It is a trap, a lower substitute for higher ecstasy, an occasion of sin. He knows it is beautiful, but he must still banish it from his art (as Plato urged the banishment of the poet from the ideal republic) because it provokes irrational thoughts and undisciplined emotions...