Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have launched the chignon fad, one Madame Marguerite Buck of Fashion Futures, had also helped promote the short haircut. "American women carry things to extremes," said she. "We didn't expect them to crop all their hair off-they look like Chihuahuas." The chignon, she thought, was the ideal answer...
...purely literary essays are bound by a common thread of dislike for those excesses of thought, even the excesses of such greats as Tolstoy and Swift, which fringe on totalitarian fanaticism. In two brilliant essays he shows how scorn and lack of pity led Swift to portray the ideal Houyhnhnm society as a soulless mechanism, and how Tolstoy's harsh morality blinded him to the truth of Shakespeare's tragedies...
Long-range plans for an "ideal" May 18-20 weekend will also appear on the questionnaire, asking for approval, objections, and comments. Activities now listed include a tea dance, buffet supper, and evening at the Brattle Theatre for Friday; a formal dinner at Moors and the class dance combined with the regular spring formal Saturday; and a picnic to Crane's Beach Sunday. Last year only 50 couples attended to separate senior class formal dance...
Here is a sport without flaw, approaching at last--the ideal of student participation. It combines the virtues of team spirit, rivalry, and upperclass exercise. There is no better training in sportsmanship than an Ivy League goal-post riot, run on strict gentleman's rules. Above all, it has spectator appeal with no taint of professionalism...
...Goes There? The English, notes harassed Biographer Vallentin, look upon Alice in Wonderland, with its "strong undercurrent of cruelty," as an ideal book for children. But how could even the English have missed the "curiously sadistic strain" that she found in some of Wells's very first work, his fancy for cataclysmic upheavals and devastating horrors? Biographer Vallentin wonders. And yet, to all appearances, he was a hearty, jovial man, bursting with a robust humor that Miss Vallentin tries in vain to reflect, and inspired with a sense of duty to mankind that she manages to get across very...