Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer conference on general semantics at St. Louis, Hayakawa organized his antipathy to pop lyrics into a thesis based on what a fellow semanticist has labeled "the IFD disease." IFD, explained Hayakawa, is a "triple-threat semantic disorder" of Idealization (the making of impossibly ideal demands on life), which leads to Frustration (when Idealization's demands are not met), which in turn leads to Demoralization, Tin Pan Alley, says Hayakawa, breeds IFD germs as Jersey swamps breed mosquitoes. "First, there is an enormous amount of idealization, the creation of a wishful dream girl or dream boy, the fleshly counterpart...
From the nation's top golf courses Golf-Course Architect Robert Trent Jones has selected the 18 holes which, in his opinion, present the toughest challenge to the championship golfer. Jones's ideal course measures 7,375 yds., has a par 72. The Jones course...
...advantage: the Viscount can operate from all but three of the 51 fields on Capital's routes, whereas Capital's Constellations cannot operate from 15, and its DC-4s cannot operate from ten. Says Slim Carmichael: "This plane puts us close to the airline operator's ideal. . . . to serve the entire route with one type of plane and one type of engine...
...people have to struggle too hard just to stay alive. If it is too hot, they relax into slow-moving lassitude. Chief exponent of this theory was Yale's Professor Ellsworth Huntington, who lived in New Haven, Conn. He decided that the climate of Connecticut is ideal for culture...
...Pulitzer Prize and the Critics Award), it offered the pleasantest sort of popular entertainment. In Edward Chodorov's Oh, Men! Oh, Women! it told an amusing yarn of a psychoanalyst. In Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, by mingling homosexuality with a radiant Deborah Kerr, it produced ideal matinee drama...