Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graduation, and published his first stories anonymously. This version of his life has been worn smooth from much handling; it is the classic, rather melancholy picture of the American literary man neglected by his time. It is also traditional and mildly touching, and it presents an image of the ideal man of letters just as Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee projects the ideal military man. Among U.S. academicians, it is cherished as the schoolboy once cherished Parson Weems's Life of Washington...
...Idlers have rooted out some splendid actors for this production, and their choice of play is ideal for this college community. "Getting Married" is probably as much fun as getting married--more, to hear Shaw talk...
...gabled palace at The Hague, forgotten by most of the turbulent world, 15 men in black robes and white bibs quietly pursue the ideal of international justice. U.N.'s International Court of Justice, a direct successor to the League's World Court, is "the principal judicial organ of the United Nations." Last week, the distinguished judges rendered their first verdict since they mounted the international bench just three years...
...ideal of every coach is to find eight men whose style is identical, but variations in arms, legs, and power make even this impossible. And mere physical conformity is not enough to make a crewman...
Best remedy for the College's failings, the report states is a return to tutorial for more of the undergraduates. The committee pleads not for any specific tutorial plan, but rather for that "intangible quantity, the tutorial idea. . . . As an ideal we see it gradually slipping from view...