Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Helen Keller has doubtless much to teach us who have our normal physical eyes as to what and how to see. She impresses one as a person of great soul-wealth. Hers is a most meaningful face, possessed with an ideal worthy of any human being. She is very vivacious and looks healthy and happy. She answered all my questions herself but Miss Thompson had to repeat to me all her words as I could understand only a very few words which she pronouced very distinctly indeed. A stranger has to be used to her speech before...
...into a series of perplexing questions: "Should considerations of personal friendship and the desire to shield friends from public humiliation prevail over the demands of national security?" "Do I as a teacher have greater moral and legal obligations than my fellow citizens?" "Should I accept departures from the historic ideal of due process in apparent questions of national security?" "Have I the right to question the power and motives of a committee which claims to uphold national security...
...raise their families. Of the two alternatives, this one seems the most practical, for the entire cost of the project could be borne by outside investors. And there would almost certainly be a ready demand for the homes from Faculty members. But this alternative would mean giving up the ideal of housing younger men. While at least one phase of the problem would be solved, the instructors and teaching fellows would still hang grumbling on the subway straps...
...independence. Otherwise, there'll be trouble in North Africa, and it won't be just a matter of extremists. We'll all be extremists, and I'll be leading them." He added dramatically: "When a man is ready to die for an ideal, he can always find...
...second place, neutralization of Germany would shatter the dreams of European unification which, while set back with the defeat of EDC, still flourish as the ideal of many Europeans and particularly many of the most democratic elements in Germany. To destroy this ideal now is to destroy perhaps the best chance to bring a lasting peace to Europe. Furthermore, a neutral, reunified and rearmed Germany would hold tremendous power to play East and West off against each other, and might thereby emerge once more as a danger to peace. Finally, by freeing a rearmed Germany from the strict control...