Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which are 6 ft. in diameter, has convinced some experts that the new Russian engines are merely large, clumsy turbojets built on old principles and probably rather inefficient. Others draw a less comforting conclusion: that the large intakes point to bypass engines, a much discussed type that may prove ideal for long-range, high-speed bombers...
...cure for this situation is the turboprop, which is coming into use in transports, notably the British Viscount. Most of the energy that it develops spins a geared propeller that moves a large volume of air comparatively slowly and yields almost ideal propulsive efficiency. But propellers have many failings at high speed, and few enginemen think they will serve above. 450 m.p.h...
...taught that metaphysics is dishonest and only matter real. The influence lingers: when Hammarskjold is talking business, he is as hard as stone. Yet the "Great Deflater," as an old friend calls Hammarskjold, writes intense romantic lyrics and goes roaming through the Lapland mountains in search of a mystic ideal. In many men, such a dichotomy could lead to complications. But Hammarskjold's mind seems to have found a satisfactory synthesis. His philosophy is complex but its basic rule is clear: "self-surrender" to an ideal which can be made reality through faith and material hard work...
...Ideal or Reality? The U.N., he thinks, is such an ideal, corresponding to a felt need in all humanity. But can it be made reality while men are men, and nations nations? The world is not yet ready, and may never be, for a world government. It does need multilateral diplomacy. The mere existence of the U.N. sometimes makes a settlement possible because nations that will not yield an inch before their next-door neighbor will beat a retreat more gracefully in response to an appeal from the U.N. It gives the Communists a soapbox, but it also provides small...
Readers of Social Scientist David Riesman (TIME. Sept. 27) will be familiar with many of Author Whitman's ideas and characters; her common man is first cousin to Riesman's other-directed individual, her ideal new man a reflection of his inner-directed person. But where earnest Author Riesman deals at length with economic and political behavior, romantic Author Whitman deals, no less earnestly, with man's inner life, the role of the mystic and of the church, the possibility of rebirth or of what Jung calls individuation. Riesman writes as a social scientist, describing and classifying...