Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself "in a more precarious and afflicted position than the nations devastated by war, and has become the most vulnerable point within the Western coalition." The President warned: "The Western cause will unavoidably suffer if in its own hemisphere no help comes. It is difficult to defend the democratic ideal with misery weighing on so many lives...
Curator Bazin utters a proud Frenchman's protest against comparing Napoleon's vacuum-cleaner sweep of European art with the wholesale robbery by Hitler and Goring. Napoleon, Bazin insists, was motivated by the lofty ideal of creating a new and universal European culture, and was within the ethics of his time. But after Waterloo, Napoleon's conquerors saw Napoleon's operation uplift in another light, stripped the Louvre of 5,233 precious art objects, left little more than 100 canvases and 800 drawings...
...public opinion in the very nations in which occurred these reprovable acts against the serene and courageous person of the Vice President constitutes a proof that such demonstrations proceeded from a factious minority. Nonetheless, it would be hardly feasible to conceal the fact that, before world public opinion, the ideal of Pan American unity has suffered serious impairment . . . In addressing these words to Your Excellency, my sole purpose is to acquaint you with my deep-seated conviction that something must be done to restore composure to the continental unity. I have no definite and detailed plans to that effect...
...Oldest Search. The search for youth and beauty is as old as woman herself. Thirteen centuries before Christ, when ancient Egypt's Queen Nefertete was the ideal of beauty, Egyptians placed cones of scented unguents on their heads to melt and thus perfume their faces. The Greeks used makeup and perfume, prized a fine appearance so highly that Athenian magistrates fined sloppy women. In Imperial Rome, women blackened their eyelids, whitened their skins with chalk or white lead, used animal fat and eggs of ants to treat their skin. Ovid scolded his mistress: "Did I not tell...
...modern civilization. The setting of Putney, in southern Vermont, and the dominating personal force which Mrs. Hinton exerted over the school in her twenty years as its director transferred the emphasis of the school from college preparation to actually leading the life and applying the standards which formed her ideal...