Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launching vehicle is still undergoing tests. Its first stage, an adaptation of the Navy's Viking, has to work perfectly to do the job: the engine's 27,000-lb. thrust is barely powerful enough to orbit a 21½-lb. ball, so any less-than-ideal performance will fail. (To send up their Sputnik the Russians apparently used a first-stage missile with a thrust of more than...
Atmosphere of Delusion. In addition to this departmentalization "was a growing attitude of worship of the gadget." The new computing machines worked at such dazzling speeds that they tended to assume more importance than the ideas fed into them. As projects grew and machines multiplied, "the ideal of the great original scientist [gave] way largely to that of the scientific administrator who is more concerned to parcel out his effort and to keep his machines, staff and ideas busy than to develop his concepts...
...Ideal Toy Corp. thundered into round-the-clock production with a sleek new $4.98 "Satellite Launcher/' complete with rotating radar tracking station, which can fire four plastic disks 75 ft. into space. Another gadget: a $7.98 "Sky Sweeper Truck." which beams searchlight silhouettes of jet planes against a wall, shoots them down with two "Nike" rockets. In seven days Ideal shipped out 100,000 Satellite Launchers, another 50,000 Sky Sweeper trucks. "This may be a propaganda blow to the U.S.," cried an Ideal executive...
Watson said that the present decline in the number of voluntary commuters and the crowding in Houses and dormitories made this the time to determine a new policy. He stated, however, that plans for liberalization were more an expedient than an ideal solution, which he said was expansion of both the House system and accommodations for freshmen
...liberalization in the requirements for the advanced placement student would therefore give him more freedom and added intellectual stimulus, and yet still hew to that University ideal of requiring some intellectual nibbling from all fields...