Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been my pleasure to have known the late Frank Lloyd Wright for the last few years. As a result, I feel impelled to offer my congratulations for the sensitive yet succinct sketch you offered to this individual's memory [April 20]. It was indeed an ideal thumbnail sketch of the high points of this native genius' life and times...
...Town and the Charles Playhouse production of it perform the difficult artistic trick of dealing with sentimental subjects without being sentimental. And the Charles Playhouse, with its Grange Hall intimacy and its large, informal stage extending out into the audience is truly an ideal setting for this most American of plays...
...phrase "broadly liberal" comes from the college catalogue, which itself defines the emphasis: "limitation of the amount of specialization safeguards the broadly liberal purpose of the four-year undergraduate curriculum." This is a double-edged ideal; for, despite the increasing numbers of its graduates who go on to take higher degrees, Wellesley itself gently discourages the academic. The Wellesley girl may not be narrow; but on the other hand there is the danger which Malcolm Cowley pointed out in the Harvard of 1915--that "culture was something to be acquired, like a veneer...
...residents are an important undergraduate group who, more than ever, provide a significant link with the people and activities of Greater Boston. It is good for a university, no matter how national in scope, to keep its roots in a community. Of course, it would be ideal if all students coming here could afford the cost of a full-residential experience and if we had a place for them in our dormitories. But in this less than the best of all possible worlds we sometimes have to compromise. Our present arrangement for commuters seems to me a good...
...reason to make it a greater problem." In effect, this is Pusey's point when he mentions this "less than the best of all possible worlds." Even if living at home is not an "evil," which seems rather strong terminology, it is a less than ideal way to attend college...