Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Titled Ideal Man and Natural Man in Western Thought, Soc Sci 4 covers Greek culture, Japanese culture, doctrine of St. Augustine, and 20th century psychology and anthropology. Rebel was chosen as a topic, Kluckhom noted, because in the book Camus deals with many of the problems raised in the course...
...European building--architectural styles which must always be viewed in context of a general Zeitgeistlicheweltanschauung. One thinks immediately of the ultimate synthesis, a Greek temple with flying buttress. Such a structure would squat gracefully across Boylston Street and express the ever-existant tension between the real and the ideal...
...sterile." Most startling: "Freud, the great spokesman for sex, was altogether a typical puritan. To him, the aim of life for a civilized person was to suppress his emotional and sexual impulses." And from Freud's own pen is a clear statement that even within a supposedly ideal marriage his sex life was over when...
Conant's report, based on visits to 55 schools in the nation, called for more distribution and better choice of courses, recommended a stiffer academic pace in schools, and defined the ideal size of a "comprehensive school" as one with 500 to 600 students...
...career with a ?250 legacy. His tactics might seem strange and austere to modern graduates of schools of creative writing, summer conferences, or writers' workshops. He pays four years' advance rent on an attic, a "cave" where he can "agonize in secret," buys some paper, a Waterman Ideal pen, a bed, a mug, a plate, a crate of oranges and a sack of coarse oatmeal. Except that he is "tired and sick to death of all people who on earth do dwell," he has no enemy in the world. But soon he has plenty. They range from "rhypokondylose...