Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Running under ideal conditions at Bakersfield, Calif., Trinidad's Mike Agostini, a Fresno State College sophomore, ran a straightaway 220-yd dash in :20.1 to break the world's record (:20.2) set in 1949 by Southern California's Mel Patton. ¶| James Ray Jordan, 36, a California aircraft worker with a great desire to set a world record, achieved his heart's desire by tanking up on pure oxygen for two minutes, dropping to the bottom of a heated San Diego swimming pool and holding his breath for 8 min. 3½ sec. to crack...
...religionists-Catholic, Protestant or Jew-rather more severely than others, because they have ostensibly had a greater light while the rest of the world presumably flounders around any which way. The unrelaxed tension in Author Powers' stories is the pull of the real against the ideal. In an earlier book, Prince of Darkness, he found a salient image for that tension in a priest eating his breakfast: "He jabbed at the grapefruit before him, his second, demolishing its perfect rose window." Essentially, this is the perennial fall of man before the images of truth, beauty and faith to which...
Obviously the ideal solution would be enough scholarship funds to pay the full expenses of everybody who is admissible to the college and cannot pay his own bills. But lacking these resources, the University still needs to do some rethinking of outdated principles, and abolish the double standard of performance for solvent and insolvent students...
Much of his teaching, however, consists of informal work with students who come to him with their own poetry. His sympathetic enthusiasm makes him an ideal audience. His criticism, delivered with vigorous precision, is helpful and encouraging. In their early years, poets like Leslie Fiedler, Ruth Stone, and Delmore Schwartz benefited from Sweeney's sponsorship...
Easily a favorite in the whole Cambo bequest is Goya's classical allegory, Cupid and Psyche. It displays against the neoclassic decor the same kind of full-bosomed, dark-haired beauty that Goya showed as his feminine ideal in his famous Nude Maja. The scarlet-draped Cupid, with muscular body yet almost feminine features, complements her as the idealized lover...