Last week, the previously lost novel version of Rand's play Ideal was published.
Rand's next play, Ideal, went unsold, and a 1940 stage adaptation of We the Living flopped.
As a play, Ideal went unperformed for 60 years after its writing, and was never seen on stage in Rand's lifetime, though Paxton says that may have something to do with its practical demands: The play has 37 characters and tons of set changes.
So each of the great rivals has ceremonially acknowledged that playing ideals, and any grandeur they have, comes from players.
Those of us who have been raised at Barcelona, with the ideals that Johan Cruyff brought to the club, have a very clear sense of how to play, an ideal.
"If someone gave it to you as a film script, it wouldn't work," said Mr. Parker, who also adapted and directed the recent screen version of another Wilde play, "An Ideal Husband".
He arrives just in time to catch the booing, having chosen to soothe his first-night nerves by attending a performance of Wilde's new play, "An Ideal Husband," instead.
Instead, Wilde may have transposed his apprehension into Lord Chiltern's (non-sexual) blackmailing situation in the darker, political play, An Ideal Husband.
Jason Day was three up with four holes to play, an ideal start to the Dell Match Play that included five birdies and hardly any stress.
A par at the last would still be good enough for Azinger to force a play-off, but after playing an ideal tee shot, his second was pulled into a greenside bunker, again to the huge appreciation of the partisan British crowd.
It looks rather gorgeous, too, on Francis O'Connor's set, which is dominated, at first, by an enormous golden sun above a tilted circular playing space – ideal for garden lawns, tea parties and playing-card courtrooms.
