Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gruen called for more complete rehabilitation projects, and showed slides with plans for the ideal city. With 80 million cars expected on the road by 1967, he said, present urban forms were no longer practical. Citing the statistic that one person is killed or injured every six minutes, he urged "a peaceful co-existence between automobiles and the human race...
Pursuing the ideal of high fashion, Edna Chase looked more like a society matron than a dedicated editor. Although she often joked about her large mouth ("Do put thy hand up when thee smiles." her mother had warned), she had a refined beauty plus forthright personal charm, and dressed, as she preached, with simple elegance. She was first married to Frank D. Chase, a hotel manager and the father of her only child, Actress and Author Ilka Chase. This marriage ended in divorce, and she later married Engineer Richard Newton, who died...
Kaysen also pointed out that the corporations which have achieved the "soulful" status should serve as an ideal to others...
...NEWS strives for the ideal in radio journalism: a sense of immediacy, a unified approach to all news items, and presentation of personalities actually involved in making the headlines...
Older residents were more sorrowful than resentful. One woman reminisced about her 44 years as the University's tenant, and stated that Harvard was an "ideal" landlord. Her boarding house used to house students until complaints about the DeWolfe St. "rathouses" caused the transfer to the dormitories. Now, students will live on DeWolfe again, and she thinks this will force her to leave Cambridge...