Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ours is the highest ideal," cried el Banna, "the holiest cause and the purest...
...cocktail party is an unlikely place to look for spirituality. Yet Eliot's Cock tall Party was a veritable Communion of Saints. His apparently vapid men and flighty women all proved to be in quest of a kind of ideal love. Those with a low spiritual potential learned resignation to their far-from-ideal human loves, while Celia, who was more gifted, saved her life by losing it. In finding saints at cocktail parties Eliot is perfectly in line with primitive Christianity which teaches that the truly good man will not be recognized by any visible piety. Christ...
...these needs. It was designed to work efficiently, and not only to provide the student quickly with those books he knew he wanted, but to bring him into contact with others by placing them in open stacks right before him. And it was designed to provide him with an ideal environment for study, writing, and casual browsing. In all respects but the last it has succeeded admirably...
Although Lamont fans like to consider it a model in every respect, McNiff does not proselyte for its list of titles, which fills a 572-page catalogue. In his introduction to the book, McNiff explodes any theories that it might be intended as an "ideal theoretical listing." The books in Lamont are chosen to serve the needs of undergraduates as far as required or recommended reading in their courses is concerned, nothing more...
Functionality was the keyword when Lamont was on the drafting board, and from the librarian's point of view it has lived up to this ideal perfectly. Despite increases in the number of books and in the number of people to use the building, the library staff is now smaller, than when it opened. A flexible coordination of work between Widener and Lamont makes this possible, with members of the staff scuttling through the tunnels from the old building to the new to meet rush hour demands. The worst press comes at night and on noon Saturdays, when reserve books...