Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideal now persistently held before the American citizen from the moment he enters kindergarten ... is a kind of conformity more or less disguised under the term 'adjustment.' 'Normality' has almost completely replaced 'Excellence' as an ideal. It has also rendered all but obsolescent such terms as 'Righteousness,' 'Integrity,' and 'Truth.' The question is no longer how a boy ought to behave but how most boys do behave; not how honest a man ought to be but how honest men usually...
...business is bringing oil from the Middle East through the Mediterranean to Northern Europe, he thought he should have offices near the Mediterranean ports of Marseille and Genoa, where many of his ships are repaired. To Onassis, some empty buildings he had seen on a visit to Monaco looked ideal. A year ago, he approached Monaco's Societe des Bains de Mer et Cercle des Strangers (Sea Bathing Society and Foreigners Club) which controls most Monacan real estate, along with the Monte Carlo Casino. Would they rent him a building? They would...
...wonderful life would now become! What an inconceivable experience it is to attain one's ideal and, at the very same moment, to fulfill oneself. I was stirred to the depths of my being. Never had I felt happiness like this-so intense and yet so pure...
...grown up since 1933 or so is simple to state, namely, that Harvard should produce men who can make their own syntheses in life of conflicting values. How much Conant shared in forming this answer is not clear, but it is enough to point out that no such ideal could service a president's indifference, much less his displeasure. That adjustment alone justifies his administration...
...freedom is healthy in terms of interest, truthfulness, and mental stimulation alone. For those on the typewriter end, moreover, its worth--the maturity gained from unhampered grappling with journalism's problems--is equally clear. All this seems so obvious that undergraduate journalists who do not strive to practice this ideal are neither giving nor receiving what a newspaper should offer...