Word: idealizations
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...guess none of us can ever know the pain of torture or the loneliness of captivity that many prisoners of war had to endure," Smith said. "All we can do is recognize and honor the sacrifices they have made for the higher ideal of freedom...
Gore is probably fine in Tampa, provided he gets a good turnout among blacks, Hispanics and working-class whites. Many of the Cuban and Italian graybeards who drink big, foamy cups of cafe con leche and talk politics every morning at the La Ideal Cafeteria and the West Tampa Sandwich Shop said they are going to stick with the Democratic ticket, even though Gore is like a bowl of black beans without the onions and spice. "I like Gore on Social Security and the environment," said Carlos Reyes, 55, who runs a medical-billing company. But Reyes says people will...
From designs for Renaissance forts to a replica of the sexy robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, 1926. From baroque engravings of New World cannibals in grass huts to pictures of yuppies enjoying a stroll through Celebration, Disney's "ideal town" in Florida. From Nazi racial propaganda to unalluring photos of early kibbutzim in Israel. From Stalinist kitsch in the '30s to Haight-Ashbury peace-and-love kitsch in the '60s. This intriguing range of objects and images is contained in "Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World," the sprawling show that kicks...
Even so, there are some surprising omissions. The grid city of 19th century Barcelona, designed from the ground up as an ideal townscape by the socialist engineer Ildefons Cerda, is the biggest example of would-be Utopian town design that ever got built--but neither it nor its inventor rates a mention in the catalog...
...theater itself offers an ideal setting for the production. Janie Howland's design is such that the Agassiz Theater looks like an extension of her set, which depicts a sitting room in the Sidley Park manor house. In the 19th-century scenes, 23-year-old tutor Septimus Hodge (Austin Guest '04) instructs 13-year-old Thomasina Coverly (Sarah Thomas '04), the precocious daughter of Lord and Lady Croom, the aristocrats who own Sidley Park. Jana Howland's costume design evokes the complexity of period dress through relatively simple outfits, which seem credible but not overwrought. In the present-day scenes...