One sometimes wonders where members of the generation will land if their self-idealization as hopeful sixties youth ever wears off.

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At the end of the book, Barrett admits a certain idealization of the jazz improvisation method, and concedes that it has its limits in business.

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Being hairless has become identified with the idealization of youthfulness, explains Professor Susan A. Basow, head of the psychology department at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.

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The move by Madrid organizers to ban models considered too thin has raised questions about whether the industry is putting young women at risk -- both inside the business and among those influenced by its ultra-skinny idealization of femininity.

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But those bright-eyed youngsters have turned into ordinary, confused adults, each in his own way an enemy of promise a fact that alternately perplexes and enrages Willy, whose idealization of Biff puts a fire wall of fantasy between him and his furious disappointment.

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