Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roman Catholics have a ready answer. The Church is the Church of Rome, and no other. Protestants cannot answer the question so easily. For them The Church can exist on this earth only as an ideal; its reality is in the future-and in heaven, where it is formed of "the blessed company of all faithful people." But this is not a comfortable concept to many U.S. Protestants, who, as practical, organization-minded men, would rather have the Church, like the Kingdom of Heaven, inhabit this earth...
Died. Sam A. (for Adolph) Lewisohn, 66, Manhattan millionaire, financier, esthete; of a heart attack; while on vacation in Santa Barbara, Calif. Along with money, he inherited from his father Adolph the family tradition of cultural philanthropy. In a big-city way, Lewisohn followed the small-town ideal of the civic-spirited citizen; helped run Manhattan's famed Lewisohn Stadium concerts; pioneered in prison reform, was the only businessman ever to head the American Prison Association; tried to smooth labor-management relations (Human Leadership in Industry) ; worked at art collecting and art criticism (Painters and Personality...
House athletics follow the University pattern, they are "representative," largely through the efforts of a small nucleus of athletes who play on all House teams. This situation makes Dunster ideal for amateur athletes who want to participate in organized sport without facing much competition to make a team...
Stoddard insisted that every department re-examine its courses. Moreover, though enrollments have more than doubled, to 24,394, he wanted classes kept small (ideal: no more than 30 students). To keep classes small, Stoddard more than doubled the faculty, and brought in some top men while he was about it. Among them: Physicist Louis Ridenour of the University of Pennsylvania, Physiologist Andrew C. Ivy of Northwestern, Pianist Soulima (son of Igor) Stravinsky. Stoddard set up a new department of preventive medicine and public health, an institute, of public affairs and an institute of labor and industrial relations...
...still the standard weapons of U.S. division artillery. The high-velocity 90-mm. tank gun is tops at lashing shells point-blank into enemy-held caves or tunnels. Some infantrymen swear by the twin 40-mm. antiaircraft gun, mounted on a halftrack. Said one colonel: "They're just ideal for those Korean hills-they go over them like a vacuum cleaner...