Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League crested by the Versailles treaty was deneituced as a "Wilson League", and as creating a super state. Moreover, Mr. Harding in the course of the campaign suggested taking what was good in the League and excising what was objectionable, so as to arrive finally at the ideal of "an association of nations, cooperating in sublime accord, to attain and preserve peace through justice rather than force...
...keynote, perhaps, of all the tributes is sounded by Mr. Lloyd George, "True, he was a failure, but a glorious failure. He failed as Jesus Christ failed, and like Christ, sacrificed his life in pursuance of his noble ideal...
...idea of failure must be revised. A man who has left a definite ideal implanted in the minds of thousands of his followers--mainly because they were his followers by the way, and not because they were intelligent enough to understand or to visualize it--who has created a definite goal, toward which all nations will find themselves irresistibly urged in the perhaps not distant future, cannot be said to have failed. It is true that he could not perform the impossible task of instantly overcoming the inborn inhibitions and accumulated prejudices of the Senate, or of the American people...
Lenin's intellectuality was put at the service of a bloodless ideal, that of a mechanical civilization in which economic forces were everything and human forces nothing. He strove to realize it by methods that were as horrible as any that Nero in ancient Rome or the worst inquisitor of the middle ages used. There has not been in history a man who so well exemplified the hellishness of a great intellect utterly barren of the noble influences that come from the heart...
...newest and perhaps greatest musical notability who will visit the U. S. during the present season will be Siegfried Wagner, son of the great Richard. He comes on a concert tour. The proceeds will be devoted to the rehabilitation of Baireuth* Wagnerian Festivals devoted to the ceremonious and supposedly ideal performance of his father's works. A great deal of legendary glory surrounds Siegfried. He is, to begin with, the offspring of a famed romance. Richard Wagner, then entering the full flame of his success, broke with his first wife, Minna, who had shared the bitter bread...