Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Human as the Ideal...
Finally, since few freshmen go to away games, an ideal schedule would find the freshmen playing at home on Saturday afternoons when the varsity is away...
...Britain's richest men (his fortune was once estimated at $14 million); of a shotgun wound, apparently accidental, while hunting alone on his 12,000-acre Devon estate. An eccentric, fuzzy-minded pacifist, Bedford could, and often did, switch causes at the drop of an ideal. Having had enough of Bedford's muddled diatribes, the House of Lords once resolved that "the noble Duke no longer be heard." Ill at ease with most people, he often preferred the company of deer, bison and parakeets, was especially fond of spiders...
Under practically ideal conditions, the Crimson varsity sailors defeated Amherst, Yale, and M.I.T. yesterday afternoon at Tech...
...woodwind quintet form, however, no matter how perfectly achieved by these men from Philadelphia, can never even approach the chamber music ideal of the string quartet. For one thing, these five woodwind instruments which have somehow found a place in the modern orchestra after centuries of experimentation and sifting have not that tonal and technical uniformity which is the raison d'etre of the string quartet. Of course it may be answered that a woodwind quintet can aim at quite a different and equally valid ideal. Unfortunately, composers have not yet shown what this might be. The two classical works...