When The Associated Press began investigating whether the Army unit he was assigned to -- the Seventh Cavalry Regiment -- killed hundreds of South Koreans nearly 50 years ago, Mr. Daily, who is 69, seemed an ideal authority on difficult terrain.
But as far as Palin is concerned, I am an ideal authority, because I was a salt-of-the-earth public speaking teacher, not some elitist, like Cicero.
We still look to architecture to embody some ideal of external authority: history, science, nature and religion, to name a few.
Charisma, as defined by the early sociologist Max Weber, was one of three "ideal types" of authority — the others were legal, as in a bureaucracy, and traditional, as in a tribe — and rested upon a kind of magical power and hero worship.
The problem, Turner says, is that the hippie ideal of escaping authority and doing one's own thing has spawned companies like Google and Facebook that are indifferent to everything around them.
Ideals, diplomacy, moral authority.
What came to be known as the Time style was characterized, in the words of a later critic, by two great democratic ideals, disrespect for authority and reverence for success.
The tension between liberal ideals, pragmatism and authority ran like a leitmotif through books like "The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest and the Foundation of Liberalism" (1984), "The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority" (1994) and "Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy" (2007).
The ideal was a single authority, but other monasteries, especially 'Bri-gung and Phag-mo-gru of the Bka'-brgyud-pa sect, whose supporters controlled several myriarchies, actively contested Sa-skya's supremacy.
This complexity of dào structures fuels, in turn, both his skepticism of absolutes, of authority, of ideal observers, of social dogmas and his qualified advice to leave the finding, choice and interpretation to a working out from the variety of perspectives that make up the behaving units in the particular circumstance.
But more so than men, however, women find that their wardrobe choices are often calibrated by cultural expectations: modesty, authority, shifting ideals of femininity.
