Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among his contemporaries, has lived the challenges of his troubled times, participated in the bloody angles of recent history. The best use a man can make of his life, Malraux proclaimed, is "by converting as wide a range of experience as possible." While the cafes debate the struggles between idealism and revolution, Malraux lived them. He has helped organize Communist strikes in China, fought the Fascists in Spain, listened while assassinations were hatched for "political" good, argued with conspirators, joked with hunted men. He is that ideal of French intellectualism, I'homme engagé, the man of thought...
...emphasizes freedom of speech, lack of obsessive rituals and minimal demands on behavior. We have been overenthusiastic in our refusal to teach control lest we traumatize ... I should like to suggest that the foundations of democracy can be achieved even while total freedom of behavior may be curtailed. The ideal solution would be neither too much nor too little training suppression. Since nobody knows how much is too much, if we err, let it be on the side of potential neuroses. [Perhaps thus we can] make our world a better place in which to live ... If we do not choose...
...throwing firecrackers, but the husbands of some of the women stood by and chased them off. Meanwhile, the women addressed letters to the people of South Africa; among them was a German immigrant who wrote: "I do not want to live in a country where arrogance and the Herrenvolk ideal can suppress honesty and freedom...
...Peilz; Suisse-Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). Debussy's incidental music to D'Annunzio's mystery play of 1911. Its five scenes: Court of Lilies, the Magic Chamber, Council of the False Gods, the Stricken Laurel and Paradise. Debussy's vaporous music is ideal for the eerie atmosphere of miracles and superstition, and there are some exquisite songs sung in Danco's exquisite soprano...
...play called Wilderness Road, which was written especially for the occasion by Southern Author Paul Green. The play was in every way appropriate-a warm tribute to the builders of Berea who decades ago traveled down the wilderness road of ignorance and persecution "in the service of their ideal...