Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reap a fine harvest of praise for the informative and appreciative article, and may Claire McCardell's enthusiastic customers be multiplied to their own certain delight. You say anyone can wear McCardell's clothes, but "they look best on what countless ads have presented as the ideal American beauty-tall, slim, long-legged." As one of the most un-American types imaginable (short, curvy, unathletic), I would like to testify that McCardell's clothes have been as if made-to-order for me from the early dirndl and Monastics through to the recent classic shirtwaist...
...form in my work has been the system of the Universe . . . What I mean is that the idea of detached bodies floating in space of different sizes and densities, perhaps of different colors and temperatures . . . some at rest, while others move in peculiar manners seems to me the ideal source of form. I would have them deployed some nearer together and some at immense distances and great disparity among all the qualities of these objects and their motions as well...
...revolution woke up with two heads: the Provisional Government led by Social Revolutionary Alexander Kerensky, with the ideal of a Western-style democratic regime; and the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, a clashing spectrum of radical parties (mostly Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries, with a few Bolsheviks) holding Socialist aims. On this Socialist family drama, Author Sukhanov lavishes the meticulous attention which an American sometimes devotes to a close pennant race. He also studs his chronicle with high-level vignettes. Among the more vivid...
...Ideal rowing conditions for the morning trials changed to biting easterly winds as the temperature dropped in the afternoon. The whitecaps in the Basin forced Col. Howard W. Robbins, veteran referce, to postpone the finals until late...
...cold war, the ideal of absolute liberty must inevitably yield to paramount considerations of national security in a number of sensitive areas of American life. A sense of proper balance between the claims of liberty and the demands of security is especially important in the government's relations with the press and other media of communication. For the public's natural desire for information presents an obvious challenge to government officials with their natural fear that vital national secrets may be delivered unknowingly into the hands of a potential enemy...