Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Company recruiters mention similar sets of characteristics for their ideal consulting candidate: analytic skills, intelligence, a diversity of extracurricular activities, leadership skills, intellectual curiosity, maturity and poise...
Dorothy Parker quipped her way into minor celebrity, wrote her way into modest immortality and drank herself into near oblivion. All talk and no action, she is not an ideal subject for a movie. But if you must film this life, you'd better do something more than flatly recount the failed promise and failed romances that made it miserable...
...easiest argument is that final clubs should be coeducational because everything at the University should be coeducational. In an ideal world, final club members would recognize that arbitrarily denying membership to half the University population must necessarily lower the quality of their applicant pool. Opening the punch process to women would give them twice as many candidates with superb leadership and fundraising skills, twice as many budding Politicos, and twice as many future presidents of Fortune 500 companies. Thus, the principal beneficiaries of rendering final clubs coeducational would, in fact, be the clubs themselves...
...time to regress to Martin Luther King's ideal. The content of one's character, not the color of one's skin, is the sole decent American criterion...
...leaderly chest beating for fear it might mark them as "insiders." If we could have sent no one to Congress, we would have. Those whom we did send, needless to say, were the proponents of "small government" -- that is, people promising to deliver us from leadership, which is an ideal under by now prolonged siege...