Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...just the cast and the sound track that are so familiar. Once again, the U.S. is trying to reconcile two qualities that lend themselves to generous interpretation: the internationalist ideal that drives its foreign policy and the aversion to bloodshed that comes naturally to a humane and democratic people...
Havel's moral authority defused a crisis of faith in Slovakia, the country's rustic eastern wing. But his remedy -- asking for the temporary right to rule by fiat if necessary -- differed only in degree from Walesa's ideal of an almost mystically righteous ruler who, as Poland's new President put it, can take "an ax" to obstacles. And Slobodan Milosevic, the steely leader elected by Serbs, won by virtue of his frank jingoism...
...Horton ploy worked as well as it did because Michael Dukakis responded feebly. Determined to fight back this time, the Democrats began rhetorical carpet bombing a month ago. Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder sent Bush an open letter admonishing him to practice "moral leadership." The ideal of equal opportunity, Wilder said in a message that got wide attention, "is not a political football to be used by our President to appease the Jesse Helmses of this country." House majority leader Richard Gephardt, a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, placed the Republicans on "a new trail of racial resentment...
...ideal of home has been grossly sentimentalized from time to time, of course, just as mothers and small towns have been. Both can be suffocating, like an interminable Sunday in an airless house. Home is a place to run away from when the time comes...
...school can have no more important function than to teach students how to make themselves clear. But by putting speed ahead of substance, the school creates false values. Racing against the clock is not an ideal way to organize one's thoughts or arrange one's words...