Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thought he admires the synthesis as "an ideal goal," Professor Handlin questions whether it is worth recapturing. The successful synthesis of the Thirties, he says, rested on a "genuine point-of-view." It would not be worthwhile, he feels, to use such devices as breaking up the tutorial lunches to achieve an "artificial unity...
...literature departments. A potentiality for synthesis" existed; and this, according to Handlin, was the reason why the field was successful. Since the War, he argues, that common point-of-view has been lacking; the literature and history departments have moved away from each other and from the ideal of History and Lit. The dominant recent trend in the literature departments, he says, is non-historical. "This may be all to the good," he adds, "but it does undermine History...
Comments ran from one extreme to the other. "Intelligence plus," wrote one girl. "Extremely conceited," claimed another. The consensus, however, was that the Harvard man is "well-read, diversified--the ideal date." One said that he is "less socially adept" than his Ivy League counterpart, but she added, "I think they're nicer...
Hugh A. Stubbins, Jr. '35, architect for the new Center, presenting his conception of the ideal theatre, asserted, "I think we've solved a problem that the drama people in New York said couldn't be solved. We were foolish enough to try it, and we have succeeded." Stubbins has designed plans for the first theatre to contain both a proscenium and a theatre in the round...
...over to Sanders last Friday evening to hear the same forces, joined by the Bach Society Orchestra, offer season's greetings to the Cambridge community. Despite the changed locale and program, the atmosphere, which makes these concerts an annual success, was unchanged; and if the performances were not classically ideal, the large audience seemed, nevertheless, very well satisfied...