Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...benighted lands, from England to Indonesia, women are still deluded into thinking that they ought to make life a little pleasanter and easier for their breadwinners; only here is the Ideal Male one who dedicates his life to the pampering of women. In India, for example, as recently as 1953, a woman was observed in the act of fixing a quiet room and a cool drink for a husband on his way home from work. In Dallas and Des Moines, as we all know, the ladies make a different kind of preparation...
...like this candlestick?' Or 'Why don't I?' I'd try to make sure I liked or disliked it as a candlestick, not as a reminder of some other object, because every kind of art object has its own ideal form. Once I learned to recognize the ideal form for a candlestick I could tell the great ones at a glance. Then I stopped collecting candlesticks and went on to boxes...
...been proposed as a candidate for beatification in the Roman Catholic Church. In The Scholar and the Cross (Newman Press; $3.50), German-born Author Hilda Graef analyzes Edith Stein and her spiritual saga with rare objectivity. One fact emerges clearly: whether saint or simply, as a friend suggested, "an ideal personality," Edith Stein was one of the most remarkable women of her time...
Convict Jose Simao, serving a 15-year sentence for murder and robbery, sized up his new cell mate as an ideal companion. Like José, white-haired Abdias Scares da Silva was a habitual criminal with a long police record and a vast fund of anecdotes about his scrapes with the law. Besides, both men came from the same Pernambuco home town. In no time at all murderer and thief were swapping yarns, telling jokes, helping each other pass the dreary days in the Pernambuco state...
...knows that something is expected of him, but hopes to find an angle or gimmick to get around it. I-4 knows better than this, but feels inadequate and doesn't know what to do with that part of himself that fails to come up to his ideal of a strong and capable man. I-5 knows that he has a strong side, a protective side and a side that can weep. Most of us are either I-5s or else I-4s struggling to become Iss. An I-6 would be no problem here...