Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faculty for imagining situations. But, as we have said before, the story seems at least partially auto-biographical. The reader feels Mr. Benet is writing more or less about himself and trying to picture how he would react to certain situations; that is, about a kind of ideal himself with whom he is not fully acquainted--or at least whom he is reticent about letting anyone but himself know intimately. The irony, too, which he attempts to put into the later parts of the book, is anything but convincing, and at some places where much space is used in talking...
...conference, and especially the part of his Sixteen Points which dealt with armaments, have had a discouraging effect, and made many people sceptical about the results of the conference. But this sound, clear-cut proposition to reduce and limit navies, in every way practical without losing sight of the ideal, has set minds at rest and brought a wave of optimism which ought to be strong enough of itself to assure ultimate success. Now that the nation sees the possibilities, it will not be content with half-way measures...
...give to such a proposal as this; yet it is difficult to find objectives for attack in its present form. The criticism that will be heard most frequently, no doubt, not only of the Hughes program but of the conference as a whole, is that it ignores the ideal--the elimination of war--and subserves everything to the ends of economic advantage. This perhaps is true; yet it is as valid for praise as for condemnation, because under the existing order we must recognize, if reluctantly, that practical considerations are the only ones which have any weight with diplomats...
...Johnson and Mr. Joy respectively, were as different as brothers usually are, and were acted indifferently well. Mr. Johnson is so vigorous in his acting and has such good lungs that we could not help thinking what a capital cheer leader he would make. But maybe the ideal Elbert Hubbard, honest-to-God young blood of 1777 was just as he portrayed him. If so, those were strenuous days, beyond a doubt. Mr. Foster, as Sir Peter Teazle, and Mr. Clive, as Sir Oliver Surface, bore the brunt of the male effort,--and they bore it well. Mr. Foster particularly...
Although not a contemporary portrait of Dante, it antedates most of the ideal pictures of the great poet, and is especially pleasing in color an composition...