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Word: idealism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shahn described the ideal program of the life of a young artist last night in the last of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures. The object of this program is the production of an educated, cultured and integrated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shahn Discusses Best Education For Young Artist in Final Talk | 4/24/1957 | See Source »

...kiss me as if it were the last time." The film is raised to the level of superlative, escapism entertainment because fine acting gives an indifferent story meaning beyond its worth; there are no second rate performances. Casablanca is an artificial world, where people who are not people are ideal though heroes, or murderers, or females, all leading dreams-of-glory existences: but the artificial world and the ideal characters are fascinating, absorbing and alive; so escape becomes exciting, satisfying reality...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Casablanca | 4/23/1957 | See Source »

Plotting the Show. The packagers of both $64,000 shows also produced NBC's The Big Surprise, which folded fortnight o ago. One of its planners offers this insight into the big-money show : "We always used a plot, an ideal way we would like the half -hour to go. If one contestant wasn't getting a good audience reaction, we would say that ideally it would be good if he got the answers for $500 and $1,000 and then missed $2,000. It develops a little audience antagonism if anyone loses right away. In a high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The $60 Million Question | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Hoadey said that most House members had indicated they want doubles or multiple suites in sophomore years but they preferred singles for their senior year. He termed the new plan of easily convertable suites "ideal...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: New Leverett Addition Keeps Vertical Entries | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...little hell. Though a ruin, he is a noble ruin, and by sheer force of presence he can command the onlooker to follow into the depths, and to look at things that may teach him a little-known truth about the brotherhood of man. It is not an ideal; it is a brutal fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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