Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Levin defended these reductions, saying, "We have lost very little by this scaling-down of the plans." He expressed a belief that the smaller auditorium was "closer to the ideal for a college theatre...
This state activity effects certain changes in the educational system. First, it alters its whole purpose. Schools and universities are expected to turn out men motivated and trained to further the development of their country, rather than well-rounded individuals trained in the liberal arts. The ideal, as set forth in The Beacon, is not so much "knowledge for its sake" as "education inspired with a social purpose...
...Fellini is not the statistical sort of realist who would take the average of all the girls in all the second-rate circuses in Italy, and cast the leading role as close as possible to this ideal. In fact, it is safe to say that no woman in the world is remotely like Giulietta Masina; that may be one reason her performance carries such conviction. Masina's face, though never down-rightly funny, is always comic--and usually pathetic into the bargain. Even when not made up in clown-white, it is a clown-face. It seems to be changing...
...Course. "The Constitution created a government dedicated to equal justice under law. The Fourteenth Amendment embodied and emphasised that ideal. State support of segregated schools through any arrangement, management, funds, or property cannot be squared with the Amendment's command that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...
What the tourists see in the south Italian fishing town of Porto Manacore is fine Adriatic beaches, offshore islands ideal for skin diving and a somnolent landscape of ripening fruit orchards. French Novelist Roger Vailland looks around more sharply, and what he sees is far less pretty In The Law (a Book of the Month Club selection and 1957 winner of France's famed Prix Goncourt), he coolly examines a hand-picked cast of Manacoreans and discovers without surprise that their lives are governed by poverty, cynicism and naked power. A sometime Communist Author Vailland searches out what suits...