Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private-with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation, discrimination and prejudice have no place in America, and I can report to you tonight that men of good will in all sections of our land are working with complete devotion toward the day when the American ideal of equality of opportunity is a reality for all of our people...
During the long wait for daylight, he switched the seat-belt sign off, told his passengers to light their cigarettes, relax. The conditions for ditching, he assured them, were "ideal." The water temperature was 74°, the sea calm...
Both movements are basically different from what might happen in the Soviet Union, he argued, because there is little traditional nationalism to divide loyalty to the Communist ideal in the U.S.S.R. The nationalism of the border states he termed a minor exception...
...dozen samples of ecstasy in the French manner, i.e., the music sometimes croons languorously, sometimes soars dizzily, sometimes seems almost paralyzed with rapture. Debussy is the perfect composer for all this, French is the perfect language, I and the pure, true, warm voice of Soprano Banco is practically ideal...
...atomic age, Stevenson's New America Reports have shown Americans a glimmer of things to come. His projects for federal aid on health and education and for the aged are soundly worked out. About his draft proposals there is some doubt. Stevenson may not have worked out an ideal defense program as yet. But his recent conjectures on the subject have raised a fruitful issue; he has awakened Americans to the realization that the two-year amateur soldier may not be fitted to modern atomic warfare tactics...