Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abandon the most fatuous and debilitating slogan that ever misled a generation," he told Brown undergraduates last week at the opening of a new college year. "Give up security as an ideal. Anyone who promises security is misbranding his political, social and economic goods ... If you insist on being cheated, buy gold bricks or perpetual-motion machines...
Egyptian art conventions did change over the centuries, though most of the modifications were so slight as to be almost imperceptible to the artists who made them. Slowly, Drioton says, "the sublime grandeur of the royal faces . . . gave way to a more human ideal of majesty mixed with a certain good-natured simplicity...
...Ideal & Reality. Though his reputation has been largely based on his poetry, Aiken may well be remembered most for his short stories. In his latest book he has brought together 29 of them; the result is an impressive handful of fiction...
Almost half of the stories are wry, faintly bitter variations on the theme of betrayed love. Men, implies Aiken, are unable to live up to their own romantic ideals, and from the tension between ideal and reality comes much of their misery. Through weakness and self-indulgence, Aiken's characters repeatedly destroy the love that promises them happiness: a man who loves a young girl lets himself be snared by the flattery of a more sophisticated woman; a nurse who knows all the shabbiness of her employer allows him to dominate...
...been victorious, to embrace the vanquished with a similar magnanimity. Clearly, it would have been different ... Indeed, an incalculable ideological distance separates America from Japan. After all, we were not beaten on the battlefields by dint of superior arms. We were defeated by a nobler ideal...