Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ideal Place...
...which is the ideal that binds peoples together," continued the great emotional actress. "It is a faith to which all is sacrificed. As at church, the artist, whose temple is the theatre, lays her soul bare...
...passed since the Boer Republic of their fathers was extinguished by Queen Victoria's armies. Moreover, the Dominion of South Africa is but 16 years old. To many a South African Boer* the possibility of disunion from the British Empire and a return to Republicanism seems an ideal not hopelessly remote from attainment. Therefore when General James B. M. Hertzog, Dutch-descended Premier of South Africa, returned last week from the Imperial Conference at London (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) all Cape Town awaited eagerly his first pronouncement. . . . Would he advocate disunion...
...entirely in favor of the restoration of balance and equilibrium among international forces by a formula most adapted for maintaining peace. ... I believe that if we place two identical weights on the two sides of an ideal weighing balance, equilibrium, in theory, should be maintained indefinitely. But if we place in them a living organism in perpetual growth, the index of the scales will be changed with velocity equal to that of the difference between the development of the two organisms. The organism which is developing itself with the greater rapidity will soon surpass the weight of the other...
...attainment of the musical ideal, there is said to be a two-fold struggle: the creation of a perfect art, and the elevation of humanity to the point of appreciating it. In the first, Walter Damrosch is no pre-eminent figure. In the second, he is perhaps the greatest of all. Despite his drawing room graces, he is, at heart, a democrat. He works less for the highest perfection than for the most good. Sir Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation...