Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparently believes in a guilty-until-proved-innocent policy. It is frightening, regardless of how the game Twenty One was played, that an organization with such power in choosing vast quantities of ideas to be presented on TV to the American people can practice such an un-American ideal...
These two facets of life at Penn--the Franklin ideal and the largely self-styled "spirit of Pennsylvania"--show at once both the best and worst of the Philadelphia university. On the one hand there is the recognition of the value of learning as shown in the laudable efforts of president Gaylord P. Harnwell to raise the school's standards. On the other, many students refuse to grow up; this immaturity, born in the undergraduate body and often unwittingly cultivated by the faculty and administration, makes the University of Pennsylvania seem at times like high school revisited...
...most of his 68 years fighting the 'galoots' ("people who take, and give nothing in return"), and proving that he, at least, is uncorrupted by the 20th century mania for money. Played by an ordinary actor, Dr. Abelman might have appeared a caricature of some wistful or long dead ideal. But Muni in perfect; he never wastes a gesture or an expression, the timbre of his voice is always exactly appropriate to the speech he is delivering...
Thus during an "up" period in Harvard-Cambridge relations, a city administration sympathetic to the University ideal prevails. This is the general outlook Harvard tries, however subtly, to foster in Cambridge city government...
Barnes said he has not encountered nearly the animosity he expected before he started to campaign, feeling that people do not mind a Harvard man on the School Committee. Cambridge is an improving city, Barnes believes, and everytime a new apartment house rises, the city comes closer to its ideal. That ideal, according to Barnes, is an educationally-oriented town, one in which "most of the population is engaged on the fore-front of learning and action." With the proximity of Harvard and M.I.T., Cambridge should be scientifically oriented...