Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conner family of the Midwest city of Green Prairie represent the new Wylie ideal. Father Conner is a sturdy sector warden who has kept his faith in C.D. throughout the dull years of cold war. So have his worthy wife and their sons Ted (a radio ham) and Chuck (an architect serving in Air Force intelligence). But their neighbors, the Bailey family, have spent the cold-war years lining their nests and crying haw-haw at C.D., except for daughter Lenore, who is devoted both to Chuck Conner and radiochemistry. Trouble is that Lenore is faced with the prospect...
When in school, Luke saw tarnish on his ideal: students faking their way through, professors who did not know their business, a fine professor of pathology scorned because he was a Jew. But when he went into practice as a small-town doctor's assistant, Lucas came upon more shocking specimens: doctors who let old, indigent patients die to get them out of the way, doctors who refused to answer night calls, a doctor who was a thief. As for Kristina, she was a wonder as a part-time nurse in the shabby county hospital, but as a doctor...
...banker must obviously be as trustworthy as the ideal Eagle Scout. Equally important is a warm personality coupled with an understanding of people; for banking is a service profession...
...American students work far harder than British students; they are more eager and more naive; they will work like beavers if it will enable them in the end to know all the answers. In [England], whether out of wisdom or weariness, we have long since considered this an impossible ideal...
...common to every case of true homosexuality: the individual has failed to "identify," as psychiatrists put it, with the parent of the same sex. In normal development a young boy wants to be substantially like his father, and things go wrong when a boy rejects his father as an ideal. If the father is a dominating, bullying type, the boy is likely to prefer, and tend to identify himself with, his mother's yielding tenderness. If father is a henpecked weakling, the boy will reject him and resolve to avoid his mistake of falling into the clutches...