Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with an old fairway acquaintance, Golfer Jimmy Demaret, three-time winner of the Masters Tournament, and described by Billy as "a surprisingly sweet Killarney tenor type." But Golfer Demaret has no place in Eckstine's vision of the composite "dream crooner." His choices and their attributes: "The ideal lad would have Perry Como's voice, Frank Sinatra's ease, Tony Martin's showmanship, Nat 'King' Cole's soul-and Bing Crosby's money...
...sampling of Asia's welter of religions. He planned, with the aid of some 75,000 feet of movie film shot during his pilgrimage, to lecture on his findings in the U.S. Of all the religions he had looked over, Ayres liked Mohammedanism best as an ideal faith for world brotherhood. Said he: "You go to pray. You go in turn. No color difference, no difference between rich and poor. You all believe in one God and you are all equal in His presence...
...business had to learn to mine the gold in suggestion boxes. Confronted with manpower and material shortages, businessmen searched around for ways of doing things faster and cheaper, discovered that their own employees had many of the answers. In turn, workers found the suggestion box an ideal way to get ahead. Furthermore, for the first time, many workers found that they could talk as well as listen to the boss...
From the dress and fashion industry's point of view, such a state of affairs was ideal. Cried Ohrbach's Sydney Gittler triumphantly: "The new simple lines are here for keeps...
...Castile is the country which gave Spain its greatest queen, Isabella, its ideal knight, the Cid, and its mystic saint, St. Theresa of Avila. Christopher Columbus died there, broken and disappointed. Castilians, who manage to scratch a living from the harsh earth, are a tough, grave and proud people. They speak the purest Spanish of Spain. The climate is "nine months of winter, three of hell." The land is a windswept steppe, almost a desert. "The most magnificent monotony in the whole world," says Sacheverell Sitwell. It has been said of Spain that it seems more a part of Africa...