Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grays slumbered through the nineteenth century and remained undisturbed by modern innovations until 1921. But amid unheated rooms and gas lights, there were some compensations. Grays proved the ideal spot for dropping water bombs on passing Yard cops, and its decadent fixtures inspired residents to make their own electrical gadgets. This temporary surge of spirit caused the only recorded use of fire ropes in University history; a proctor locked himself in his room and after hours of fruitless effort, he turned from the door and slid down from his window...
Ralph Kirkpatrick is a whole musician for having wrestled seriously with diverse apsects of his field. The ideal of the whole musician--composer, performer, teacher--was prevalent in the 17th and 18th centuries, Mr. Kirkpatrick's special field of interest, and indeed was superbly exemplified by Domeniico Scarlatti, the subject of Mr. Kirkpatrick's biography. The altered social role of the musician today, and specialization within music have made adherence to such an ideal the exception rather than the rule (the late Arthur Schnable is said to have consciously and zealously striven toward it). As far as I know...
...Spain.) But he seldom loses sight of the central struggle of the Middle Ages: the effort to build a truly universal Christian civilization-"the City of God on earth." Mostly the struggle was in the form of competition between the Church and the Holy Roman Empire-"between the ideal of a theocratic empire and that of a theocratic church, each of which was inspired by the same vision of an all-embracing Christian society...
Over-all there is a tremendous feeling of boisterousness and organized good sprit is that, while it may not jibe with the Cambridge ideal of a pick-up cocktail hour, is quite pleasant. If a weekend of frantic partying is exhausting, and if the excitement pales by Sunday morning, well, there is only one a year and it gets awfully cold and lonely in the woods of New Hampshire
...faculty members met in the Congregational Church last night to debate the resolution, "The Church is Necessary for the Preservation of the Democratic Ideal." But both agreed that it wasn't, and the question became instead, "Can the Church Support Democracy if Democracy is Secular...