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[LOED-stawr'] 
1. a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy, especially the North Star (Polaris)
2. something that serves as a model, guide, or inspiration: "For an aspiring musician like Tim, the concert footage on this dvd was a musical lodestar."
also: loadstar
Origin:
14th century; from Middle English, 'lodesterre' ('lode': way, course + 'sterre': star). In action:
"The Soviet empire has collapsed, China is going free market and Cuba is preparing to greet the pope. But there's still one country proud to carry the tattered Red flag and wave it in the face of capitalist running dogs everywhere: North Korea. The North Korean government is a throwback to the glory days of communism, when commissars mysteriously vanished from May Day photographs and the inevitable defeat of Western puppet governments seemed only another five-year plan away. Lately, though, North Korea has been trying to polish its image, using modern media tools such as newspaper ads and the Web.
A full-page ad in the New York Times two weeks ago set the tone. Above a color photo of the current North Korean president, a headline proclaimed: KIM JONG IL EMERGES AS THE LODESTAR FOR SAILING THE 21ST CENTURY."
Tom McNichol. "Cult of Personality," Salon.com (May 30, 2003).
"Republicans are embroiled in a bitter family feud over an issue that has been a unifying force for 20 years -- tax cuts.
Through four presidents and several divided governments, tax cuts have remained the lodestar of the Republican Party."
Carolyn Lochhead. "GOP rebels keep Bush's tax cut bill on the ropes," The San Francisco Chronicle (May 14, 2003).
"It has been there, on Saturday afternoons during the season, for all of my remembered life -- the live broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera.
Wars, recessions, booms-- let's face it: whole generations -- have come and gone but these broadcasts have held steady, one of the rare and thus valued constants in the tossings and turnings of the years.
They have been a cultural lodestar. You could navigate by them. You could count on them. Fads swelled and raged and waned. The Met was constant.
Was."
Tom Teepen. "Can on-air opera be saved?" [Fate of the Met's live broadcast will be a test for our culture.] The Charlotte Observer (May 28, 2003).
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