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Instead, the administration would like to try a little social engineering--mixing a few jocks here, a few minorities there, a few geeks everywhere--to produce the ideal diverse community envisioned by such visionaries as Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Who is to say that diversity is the ultimate good to be achieved through residency, especially at the price of sacrificing individual autonomy...
...reasonable account, Dukakis was the ideal Democratic nominee, even for the party's more liberal elements. After the 1984 election, pundits and strategists consistently called on the Democrats to nominate one of their young, pragmatic, popular, technocratic governors, and to shy away from the tired liberalism of older Democrats...
...aristocratic Vice President would seem like an ideal target. Son of a Wall Street banker and U.S. Senator. Andover. Yale. Kennebunkport. What could be easier? But Bush reversed the normal equation. The man with four names jettisoned his g's, touted his taste for pork rinds and successfully put himself across as a regular guy. Bush persuaded voters to forget his background by pushing to the foreground the themes of cultural, not economic, populism: patriotism (the flag and the Pledge) and toughness on crime. His campaign has cynically mined the white fears and racism that feed this form of cultural...
...closing, the delegation reasserted that the Soviet Union's new foreign policy would be governed by the ideal of peaceful coexistence through competition under Gorbachev and his new political front...
...17th century the classical world was the locus of ideal beauty, but how did a Frenchman enter it? A writer could read Vergil without leaving Paris, but a painter had to go to Rome. There, ancient sculpture and architecture abounded; from them, antiquity could be reimagined. It was the strength of the reimagining, not just its archaeological correctness, that counted. Poussin's main regular job during his Roman years was drawing records of ancient sculpture for a rich antiquary and scholar named Cassiano dal Pozzo. This gave him excellent access to collections, and the time to develop the repertoire...