Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House. Franklyn Hall kept his job until his death in 1915, but left his family behind in the roomy house he had built in Oyster Bay, returning home for vacations and occasional holidays. From childhood Len was immersed in politics, and Teddy Roosevelt became and remained his political ideal...
...aware of Eisenhower's dissatisfaction with the quality of current Republicanism-its aged face, its timorous voice, its lack of political style and verve. Hall tries to carry out the Eisenhower insistence on more young faces and fresh voices in the party councils. As a man whose political ideal is Teddy Roosevelt, Hall knows well what the boss wants -and knows that the years remaining with Ike in the presidency are all the time the party may have to refurbish itself...
...owns 1,336,824 shares (6.5%) of Alcoa common stock and ranks among the world's richest men (one estimate: well over $350 million), plans to revamp the club into a resort for millionaires, cut up the land into estates. Said Davis: "While Florida will always offer ideal home sites for the middle income group, we [must] provide also for the group whose accomplishments enable them to enjoy the finest...
...indigent athlete since he is not only some ten years too old for the part, but also because he is very much the wrong type. To a role which requires a great deal of animal magnetism he brings only the clean-cut charm appropriate to a thoroughly tamed ideal husband...
...sense, the totalitarians are young. The average life expectancy in the U.S.S.R. appears _to be about 30 years, the same as it was in the Middle Ages. Starvation, slave camps and the liquidation squads keep ripe old age rare. For the rest, the young are the dictator's ideal dupes with their "excess of energy," their "lack of attachments, their impulse toward sacrifice, their ignorance." They become the zealots; the majority of SS men who ran Buchenwald in 1938 were between the ages...