Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giacometti's ideal would be to spend a lifetime on a single statue, paring ever closer to its essence, but impatience often makes him reduce bust to dust in a matter of minutes. "Despite all my efforts," he complains,"! retain conventional elements I want...
What kind of nationally "balanced" student body does Harvard want? How has competition from other Ivy League schools affected that ideal makeup, and what steps has the University taken in response? How much is the problem linked with football? These are some of the questions raised by Harvard's new promotion program which this report aims to study...
...should take measures to increase the flow of good students who have other qualities that are needed to reach our ideal balance. . . . I believe there are many boys of the kind we want in the second quarter of classes that now send up only...
...drew its new strength from modern Western civilization and is using that strength now to shake off Western rule. But the significant thing to Toynbee is not that Asia has learned Western technology. It is that, through it, Asia's people have caught, willy nilly, "an idea, an ideal, a hope"-technology's "imponderable spiritual fellow travelers...
...Proper Function. The whole ideal of the university is rooted deep in Western civilization-older than parliaments, older than the modern state itself-and over the centuries it has assumed many functions. It has been a refuge for scholars, a treasure house of facts, an incubator of new ideas and new ideals. At its best, it has always been the preserver; propagator and perpetuator of human wisdom. The proper function of the university, wrote Newman, is "teaching universal knowledge...