Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spectacle of warring conservatism is now a thing of the remote past," Brady stated. He declared that "the ideal and the fact of a united conservative club at Harvard is far more important than the name given...
...among 37 "growing" adolescents. Yet a good teacher extracts what she can from the modern theories, applies them when she can. and then sometimes has the great satisfaction in having helped her charges. Why so much sympathy for Miss Dunn for her abandonment? Are we teachers to wait for ideal conditions before trying to help these unideal children learn to use what they have in the best way possible in an imperfect world...
...Chicago,' the spirit of temporizing with present problems ... I am made heartsick by those in my own party who do not militantly reject the spurious doctrine [of moderation]. I would be ashamed to harken to the counsels of those who have proposed, in effect, that this is an ideal time for a national coffee break...
...Lynching Bee." Ratliff aired his own accusations at an employee meeting where City Editor Jack Cronin also charged that "the ruthless collusion of unprincipled men" had "betrayed the ideal for which we fought in 1952." Ratliff's chief charges were that : 1 ) board members voted themselves stock options, which, at his insistence, they finally dropped, except for Ferger; 2) Ferger and Assistant Publisher Eugene S. Duffield together paid themselves an estimated $135,000 in a year when the whole company earned a $349,000 profit and paid its stockholders only $78,000 in dividends; 3) Ferger and Duffield negotiated...
...Everything Will Be All Right." The dilemma of the white American, as Author Baldwin sees it, is that he is caught between a West European legacy of white supremacy and the democratic ideal of equality and brotherhood. Unfortunately, the love of justice rarely bridges the absence of love. For his part, the Negro "hates and fears" the white man, but he cannot retreat to his African heritage, which was severed at the auction block; he can only find his identity within "the cage of reality" of the American scene...