Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quincy dining hall is what every Harvard student believes himself to be: overworked and underappreciated. Too many students take advantage of its proximity to the Yard (it's the closest viable option), making Quincy an ideal arena to stage the struggle between institutional necessity and residential comfort...
...First of all, please. Like that matters. Second of all, I guess it's more just the way they go about trying to attain this impossible ideal, with such paternalistic, overbearing measures. Do you know I have to fill out a contract to throw a bash? Talk about sucking away spontaneous fun. The administration seems so content to treat us like little kids, rather than the mature individuals we are. I mean, come on, we all got into Harvard, didn't we? That's got to count for something...
...years, as 2000 has drawn closer, we have stopped dreaming about The Future. There was just too much that needed to happen before we'd be in a position to achieve the hopes we originally had for it. We aren't close to the Donna Reed 1950s Space Age ideal. In fact, Donna Reed largely doesn't exist anymore. As fewer women choose to be housewives, the need to create Rosie the Robot has ironically fallen by the wayside. Flying cars aren't anywhere near the horizon. We're just getting started with alternative automobile fuel sources like ethanol, electricity...
...This] film is ideal to start off U.N. Week because it was filmed in 24 countries...and is the best known documentary that captures the nature of the world," said Zhong J. Chen '01, a Woodbridge board member from China...
...South Africans, his determination to pursue truth and lasting reconciliation upon his release and his election as the President of South Africa serve as vivid and universal lessons in the ability of mankind to create what Mandela, 35 years ago in a Pretoria courtroom, called his cherished ideal of "a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities." --Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General...