Word: idealization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cross-casting is a recent and noble ideal. When a director or producer cross-casts, he or she casts a role disregarding the script's proscription of race or gender. On one level, it is an appealingly democratic notion; it suggests that anyone can play any role, and that despite our socialization, characteristics such as sex and race are supremely superficial...
...producers decided to cast European Jonathan Pryce in the role of a Eurasian, and Actor's Equity made a recommendation that the role be played by an Asian or Asian-American. Editorial pages across the country decried the Union for espousing what they called racism. What happened to the ideal of blind casting...
Athletic teams today form so integral part of the college scene across the United States that they are largely taken for granted. The roots of an athletic program integrated with an academic one are derived from the ancient Greek ideal of sound mind and sound body. It is now so ingrained as part of American college life that students and alumni alike have come to expect varsity sports at colleges...
...lied. I entered a respectable number--my diastollic blood pressure. The machine beeped and asked me to enter my weight again. The person waiting in line behind me looked impatient. I smiled sheepishly and said, "I thought that meant ideal weight...
...course it is a more ambitious ideal, possibly harder to achieve politically than simple reverse discrimination. It steps directly on more powerful toes. But it cannot be faulted by conservatives as social engineering, as interference with free lives and free markets. Broadcasting and medicine are just two areas where the more radical solution, the more egalitarian one, is more oriented toward free markets. But don't expect conservatives to take up this rallying cry. Some of them would rather admit a ration of minorities into their cozy establishments than see those establishments truly shaken up. Others, like Jesse Helms, would...