Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends who preferred to see it killed rather than emasculated. In its death struggle, EDC provided one unforeseen consolation. By forcing five sovereign governments to stand up and defend its supranational clauses, EDC, in death, had given proof of the life that was in the ideal. Mendés the realist, with his ability to weigh facts, apparently had not known how to measure the strength of an ideal...
...Hector Berlioz, the ideal orchestra consisted of 242 strings, 30 grand pianos, 30 harps, legions of wind players and (according to 19th century wags) a few heavy mortars. He was never able to command such an aggregation, but several times he came close, notably in his most magnificent score, the Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem). That opus calls for a 210-member chorus, full symphony orchestra, four separate brass choirs (labeled according to the points of the compass), plus a battery of 16 kettledrums. Few of today's symphonies can afford to stage the work. At Tanglewood, Mass, last...
...Eight members of New York's Joint Legislative Committee on Problems of the Aging reported last week that Hollywood is the "archfoe" of the elderly. Reason: movies portray old age as "a trap, a pit, a hopeless end,'' and glorify "teenage super-beauties as the American ideal." Objectionable oldster types, according to State Senator Thomas C. Desmond, 63: Lionel Barrymore (as a cantankerous oldster), Billy Burke (as a rattlebrain). Objectionable youngster types, "the type of youth glorification that makes it difficult for older women to find a useful, happy place in modern life": Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe...
...granted that his duty in life was that of a Galahad: honor, rather than fair ladies, was the desired prize. The great "T. E.," second-born of the five, and Britain's legendary World War I hero in the turbulent Middle East, merely brought to public notice an ideal which belonged to the whole family...
...other hand, is "quality folks," with a vocabulary of Basic French (au revoir, soupcon, carte blanche). In Stone's version, it is not Lincoln who lifts himself to eminence by his bootstraps, but Mary who raises him with her apron strings. This may make Love Is Eternal the ideal woman's home companion, but scarcely good history. In the main, Author Stone rushes about in his chosen role of literary fire warden, stamping out the flame of another great personality...