Word: idealizations
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...night this time of year, temperatures can fall into the 30s. During the day, the clear skies make a perfect canvas on which to watch for the telltale wisps of dust that follow moving soldiers or helicopters or armor. Just as the badlands of the American West were ideal places for the outlaws who haunted the imagination of 19th century America, so the rugged country of Afghanistan is perfect, as if made for the outlaw who haunts the start of the 21st...
...invoke this time, when any U.S. military action will follow a terrorist attack carried out on American soil. And the argument that the mass murder of Sept. 11 was brought on by injustices of American foreign policy is hard to credit when Osama bin Laden is a man whose ideal of social organization is not exactly Denmark...
What, then, about the punk as musician? Clearly, the situation of the punk musician is somewhat untenable, since he has an allegiance both to the decidedly anti-commerical punk ethic and to the musician’s ideal of sharing and disseminating music. This is the conflict at the root of most punk “sellouts...
About the show and its explicit prohibition of female actors, Illingworth says, “It’s a strange situation—it’s not ideal...
Mikva, a former White House counsel under President Bill Clinton, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and five-term member of Congress from Illinois, was a the ideal speaker to christen the new liberal organization, many audience members said...