Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charging "extreme cruelty," Cinemactress Debbie Reynolds filed suit for divorce from Crooner Eddie Fisher after three years, two months of another Hollywood "ideal marriage," asked for "reasonable and substantial support and maintenance" and custody of the two little Fishers, Carrie, 2, and Todd, nine months. Hours later, Eddie shared champagne and caviar at a Beverly Hills bistro with the cause of it all, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor ("I'm alive") Todd...
...Party got a love note: "Our generation of youth will always rally closely around the party and go wherever the party tells us ... We will never disappoint the party in its earnest hopes and will strive to accelerate the building of socialism and to realize mankind's noblest ideal-Communism-in our generation and by our own hands." To millions of hand-blistered Chinese students, the last phrase must ring with ironic accuracy. For much of the impetus in China's "Year of the Leap" (TIME, Dec. 1) has come from daily sessions of mind and muscle-numbing...
Higher learning in America has traditionally revolved around the prestige of the erudite scholar and his note-taking pedagogy. This academic ideal pictures a band of scholars in the libraries, doing research, composing reports on this research in the form of lectures, and mimeographing lists of books which relate to their investigation. On the receiving end of this verbal transaction should be an intellectual student, attentively copying the scholar's words into his notebook, and diligently tracing the outlines of his reading into a well-foonoted typescript or bluebook...
...training meal immediately before an athletic contest, however, is a horse of another color, and this should clearly be retained. But so long as the University pays lip service to the ideal of mixing people with diverse backgrounds and interests, its continued support of the daily training-table will seem very strange indeed...
...could have transported himself to an ideal Boston, Curley would quite possibly have tolerated the Harvardians for sentimental reasons so long as the Irish had the money. But it seems less likely that the Harvard community (insofar as it exists), were it transported to an ideal community (insofar as it could agree on one), would be inclined to accord Curley a similar favor