Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Blashill's article "The Island of Not Having" [May 17] makes Gan sound like an ideal spot for the troops here on Shemya to visit for rest and recuperation. Our island is a 2-by-4-mile dot of tundra at the far western end of the Aleutian chain. We are about 1,200 Air Force, Army and civilian men with no females. We do get a chance to ogle the Reeve-Aleutian Airline stewardesses twice weekly. The Gan Island weather, fishing, golf, tennis and volleyball sound like a little bit of heaven compared with Shemya...
...future. Winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor and 23 other citations, credited with killing an estimated 240 Germans, the baby-faced kid from Kingston, Texas, was feted by the press and patriotic organizations, courted by business, industry and Hollywood. To an adoring public, he represented that elusive American ideal: the small-town boy who, despite seemingly insurmountable odds, goes on to perform such deeds as dreams and motion pictures are made...
...team had an ideal laboratory. Jerusalem has up to 150 days of khamsin a year, during which time temperatures soar above 90° while the relative humidity plummets toward zero. Half of the city's population suffer from some kind of khamsin-related condition. For many, the misery is minor, such as swelling of the extremities. For others, how ever, the effects are far more pervasive...
...Harold Pinter's plays can be viewed as attempts to write the same play. Each new work appears to be another approximation of some Platonic ideal in which Pinter yearns finally to reduce a few characteristic themes and methods to their purest state, finally to narrow his focus to a vision of life in its quiddity. In these terms, Old Times, which opened last week in London, may be his nearest miss...
...Since the days of Nikita Khrushchev, who once admitted to Sadat that "we cannot drive people into paradise with a stick," Moscow has hoped that the Egyptians would eventually find their own way into the socialist Eden. Egypt's only political party, the Arab Socialist Union, appeared an ideal ideological instrument for the journey; it was certainly no accident that Ali Sabry, Sadat's principal competitor for power, was until last month both the dominant voice within the A.S.U. and the Egyptian leader closest to Moscow...