Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pianist Istomin feels that he arrived on the U.S. musical scene at an ideal time. The son of Russian-born professional singers, he studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia under Pianist Rudolf Serkin. The U.S. was then benefiting from the wartime influx of great European artists. Says Istomin: "Every time I heard men like Rubinstein. Artur Schnabel, Horowitz, or Bruno Walter. I felt as though artistically I had robbed the city bank of New York. We were a very lucky generation...
Talking about the foreign affairs of others was in fact ideal for this purpose; Nehru could say exactly what he wanted, and the consequences were the responsibility of the others. In Bonn German Foreign Ministry officials persuaded flinty old West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to be obliging to Nehru, though the Chancellor scorns Nehru's way of thinking. Adenauer even went so far as to break his no-Sunday-engagements rule in order to take Nehru on a cruise up the castled Rhine. They met three times for four hours, and both stubborn men had the honesty...
...schoolchildren who got free Salk shots in classroom clinics before vacations began. Of the five dead, three were under six, one was 28, one 34. Twenty-two of the victims had been vaccinated against polio, but most had had only one shot of vaccine, instead of the ideal three spread over seven months...
...that follows many operations, and for the kind that so often bedevils the cancer victim, the experts agree that the best drugs are those of the morphine and methadone families. And the necessary doses can often be reduced by combining them with chlorpromazine. But because of addiction problems, the ideal drug to kill pain remains as elusive as the definition of pain itself...
Throughout the political battles of half a century, the rallying cry of Britain's Labor Party has been the Marxist ideal of "social ownership of the means of production." Last week in Towards Equality, a slim, 31-page pamphlet prepared under the personal supervision of Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, Labor sharply and radically changed its tune...