Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry Pitney Van Dusen, President of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, placed the Reformed churches squarely in the center of the ecumenical movement, recalled Calvin's own plans for a Protestant federation: "Ardor for the ideal of Christian unity [is] laid as an inescapable obligation upon all those who acknowledge the spiritual lineage of John Calvin...
...Lady-Killer. Little Leo has no idea what Marian thinks about marrying Lord Trimingham. He only knows that she is his boyish ideal of a goddess and that he worships her beauty almost as much as Lord Trimingham's viscountcy. To fetch and carry for Maid Marian is heaven to Leo-especially when she asks him to carry a secret letter from her to Ted Burgess and rewards him with "an enchanting smile...
Martinoli has boosted Necchi's production to 200,000 machines a year, five times what it was when he took over, now employs more than 4,300 workers and is still growing. Says he: "In our business at least, American production techniques are ideal. Our workers aren't like Swiss-patient, painstaking, precise. Our workers are like Americans-hasty, impatient, and better adapted to assembly line than to artisan work...
...chemical weapon against cancer has always been looked upon as ideal-such weapons as X ray or radium therapy work with an undiscriminating shotgun effect on growing tissues, healthy as well as diseased. (These techniques do not work when the disease is advanced and widespread.) But many authorities have held that chemicals, too, would prove hazardous. Sloan-Kettering's preliminary findings with rats and mice suggest that the hazard may be overcome, but the crucial test is still to come-the testing of these and other compounds on transplanted human cancers in rats and mice (TIME, April...
...Love is depicted in most white popular songs as ... magic. There is never an indication . . . that, having found the dream girl or dream man, one's problems are just beginning. Rather . . . having found one's ideal, all problems are forever solved...