Word: ideals
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...economic reality. The American dream of living better than our parents, or living as well as our parents, simply requires more effort today than it did. The dual-career family, which only became the norm with our parents' generation, is a reality far removed from the free-loving ideal Professor Blumenthal's youth experimented with in the '60s. And on the other hand, as a result of the gains by the Women's Rights Movement in the last two decades, the domestic tyranny of the '50s is behind us. Freud's und is now gender neutral...
Influenced by liberalization in both theology and society, such clergymen reject or redefine the official concept of celibacy. Many of them interpret it as a ban upon marriage instead of sex, or as an ideal instead of a law to be obeyed. One of Wolf's homosexual priests said of the celibacy rule, "Since it is forced, it has no moral binding power as long as scandal is avoided...
...discussion before a crowd of more than 400 at an Institute of Politics Forum quickly turned into a debate over the legitimacy of the Objectivist conception of selfishness as an ideal guide for human behavior...
...these factors, friends say, make him ideal for the job of state treasurer...
Natural migration probably cannot restock Yellowstone, which is why the political jostling goes on. Big, burly Dave Mech, widely accepted as the world's leading authority on wolves, says Yellowstone is ideal for Canis lupus. Alston Chase, the cantankerous philosopher who wrote Playing God in Yellowstone, thinks the U.S. has a moral obligation to return wolves to the park. But the wolves' most effective ally may be Renee Askins, 30, of Moose, Wyo., a wildlife ecologist who stumps for an advocacy group she founded called the Wolf Fund...