Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MlCHTOM Ideal Toy Corp. New York City...
...checkup at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, but since Prince Rainier is in royally robust health, that was obviously just an excuse to justify the expense account. Before he left Paris last week, the Prince gave reporters an idea of what he had on his mind: "The ideal woman, I see her with long hair floating in the wind, the color of autumn leaves. Her eyes are blue or violet, with flecks of gold. Furthermore, she should be practiced in all sports without being champion in any one. I want her to be intelligent but not an intellectual...
...even cool, in temperament. Probably English Art Historian John Pope-Hennessy comes closest to the mark: "For all the translucent surface of his paintings, for all his rapturous pleasure in the natural world, there lay concealed, within Angelico's artistic personality, a Puritan faithful to his own intransigent ideal of reformed religious...
...embellish the city, its churches and palaces he drew on the talents of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Lippo Lippi, Uccello, Luca della Robbia. The great monument to his ideal, a marriage between humanism and religion, was the San Marco convent, which Cosimo prevailed upon Pope Eugenius IV to transfer from the Sylvetrines to the Dominican Observants. Cosimo ordered his favorite architect Michelozzo to repair the building, richly endowed it with 400 rare manuscripts and classic statues of Venus and Apollo. To do the frescoes, Cosimo called on the great Dominican painter Fra Angelico...
Attacking such specialized college programs as commerce, speech, public relations, and journalism, Griswold maintained that the ideal lawyer should be broadly learned as well as technically trained. "Such a lawyer is cultured, wellbred, thoughtful, trained to see things in a broad light, and prepared to advise with wisdom as well as technical learning," he said...