Word: idealization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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SUCH high hopes. When Derek Curtis Bok was named Harvard's 25th president in 1971, many hoped for the conciliator to transform the University. The New York Times called Bok "symbolic of the beginning of a new era," and even we called him the "ideal choice...
...result is a bold stylistic stroke. The short scenes and pungent dialogue are ideal for catching the rhythm of Winchell's beat, while the residual piece of screenwriter's carpentry ("closing credits come up") underscores not only its artificiality but also Winchell's own purblind flair for self- dramatization. As a literary form, the screenplay generally rates as much respect as restaurant menu prose, and a novel molded like this slips past any easy characterization. "Maybe it's a mongrel," Herr suggests. "Maybe it's just a novel with a camera...
...indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand: we are too small and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give...
NIETZSCHE wrote that "the secret or reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!" Heavy metal certainly epitomizes his ideal. I consider metal to be the rock 'n roll of the '80s, and hopefully it will be a dominant musical force well into...
...sleep well at night confident that some impetuous young men still spit in the face of convention, that there still breathe those who exemplify the Morrisonian ideal of "live fast, die young...