Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very high return in Winthrop House (it had a one percent response rate, in contrast to the overall student response rate of nearly ten percent), I decided to do a survey of my own in the dining hall. I gave my housemates the chance to suggest their own ideal use for the space. The only requirements: it had to draw students and it had to (a novel idea!) turn a profit...
...Ford, if not Wills, shrewdly sensed, the imposing physical presence and the cranky large-heartedness Wayne conveyed onscreen gave good dramatic weight to this sense of obligation. But by 1979, when he died, most of us no longer found that idea or the ideal of the frontier very useful. Our culture had ceased to celebrate people who bound their lives to the defense of the simple moralities that Wayne embodied--moralities that even liberals, deploring his reactionary politics, found they missed. Wayne's legend, his apparent immortality, the sources of which keep eluding Wills, derive from that curiously haunting sense...
...Baki says her work falls into two categories. She said her work originally reflected her belief that freedom was an external ideal, and she painted on topics such as women's rights...
Furthermore, we would love to see a progressive-minded, efficient, imaginative and responsive person filling the role of superintendent. Cambridge schools are in dire need of creativity and organization; someone who could breathe excitement into the schools while balancing multiple needs within a limited budget would represent the ideal combination of talents...
...grumbled one woman afterwards, undoubtedly voicing the thoughts of many other patrons. Perhaps it is the purist in all of us that goes to Symphony Hall with a strict set of ideas, and perhaps it is because of these ideas that this kind of performance fails to realize our ideal of an authentic concert experience...