Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hearty declamations and zestful crudeness of manner. Geidt lacks Mephistophelian finesse as both Mendoza and Satan, but is nicely balanced by Epstein who is superb as the stiffly and stuffily pompous Ramsden/Statue. And Rowe is highly diverting as the laconic chauffeur (H)enry Straker--Shaw's representative of the ideal working-class man, contempt for the bourgeois...
...maturity required to make and live out the permanent commitment that a true sacramental marriage involves--a maturity that is unfortunately not always found among those who pronounce their marriage vows before the altar. The church will always face the challenge of maintaining the balance between responsibly proclaiming the ideal of permanence of the marriage bond and giving relief and compassion to those whose marriages have totally failed. (The Rev.) JOSEPH A. FAHY Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Atlanta...
...feelings might be different if schools were different. Often the demands on educators to cover more content, to give more drills on skills and to prime students for tests create conditions that are less than ideal for learning. Four more weeks would give educators the time they need to experiment with innovative ways to teach subjects. By providing the kinds of experiences that kids remember and most enjoy, school could be as much fun as summer--almost...
...think the other thing he might add is that our department has been raided at the senior level by the Princeton economics department. Mike Whinston would be...an ideal replacement as a very senior person," said Savage...
...conceived of the vast public work as an expression of shared potential, communal will and can-do. Its epitome, though, was the skyscraper, that uniquely American form. As a symbol of Promethean energy, the skyscraper has never been surpassed. It is the architecture of smooth-flowing congestion, an American ideal, and it took ever more glorious forms in such designs as the Empire State Building and the great, self-sufficient urban complex of Rockefeller Center...