Word: idealization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomat with a lawyer's incisive mind, Jessup was picked as the ideal man to thread a way through the evasions and admissions of the State Department's shaky 1,054-page white paper on China, turned out a report that put the best face on the U.S.'s weak and vacillating policy in Asia. Then he turned to an even tougher task. As head of a three-man committee, he set to auditing the entire U.S. Far Eastern policy...
...week that she thought the present kind of opposition little short of blasphemy. In a rousing speech to a women's trade-union group, she cried: "I sometimes think that President Perón has ceased to be a man like other men-that he is rather an ideal incarnate! For this, our movement may cherish him as its one leader without fearing that he will disappear on the unhappy day that Perón personally is missing...
Further, there were too many nominees. This meant that voting was necessarily confused, and that except for the top men, the candidates were separated by margins so small as to be nearly meaningless. There are three solutions which, though perhaps not ideal, could straighten this out: 1. have a primary election and then a run-off; 2. require more signatures on nominating petitions, insuring both a smaller slate and nominees who are known to the voters; 3. at least institute preferential voting to help offset the size of the ballot...
...wealth, and may I add, irrepressible and unhibited tourists. I hope to see the day when we shall send to Europe our finest artists, scholars, symphony orchestras, university shows, choirs, etc. The Yale Glee Club and the Walden String Quartet were worth a hundred public discussions on the democratic ideal and culture...
...more perceptive Germans and Austrians realize that armies are everywhere the same, but the mass of people, failing to find a difference between a democratic and a totalitarian army, give up the puzzle altogether. Quoting Grace again, "The most effective method of establishing a society based on the democratic ideal is to abandon the use of the term as such, and, by practice and precept, lead the German people to accept this ideal...