Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board has not yet determined the number desired in the Class of 1959. The ideal number for the present freshman class was 1150, but upper class crowding in the Houses as well as available space in the Yard will determine this year's figure, Bender said...
Next morning at 8, the President, a road-racer's gleam in his eye, took the wheel again and sped away through dun-colored hills. Official chauffeurs in the convoy crossed themselves and followed. But it was ideal driving: troops patrolled the highway (particularly guarding bridges) and kept all other traffic backed up at side roads...
Curves, too, remain in his vocabulary, a "flat" curve being the graphical representation of the audiophile's ideal (it means that the equipment gives the same amount of emphasis to lows, middles and highs...
...pursuit of this ideal, the hi-fi enthusiast still hovers anxiously over his treble and bass controls, giving rise to the story about the audiophile who went to hear a live concert under Leopold Stokowski and left the hall holding his ears and muttering: "Too much bass! Too much bass!" "High-fidelity sound," says one expert, "is like the term love. It means whatever you choose it to mean." Hi-fi is, in fact, an attitude-a kind of passion to reproduce music exactly as it sounded in its natural setting, e.g., a symphony orchestra in a full concert hall...
...majority of Jung's patients have been women, and he has had some down-to-earth things to say about the status of woman in the modern world. She has, he thinks, lost the old ideal of marriage ("He shall be thy master"). The tradition that it is the man who generally breaks up a marriage is no longer true: "Today life makes such demands on man that the noble hidalgo Don Juan is to be seen nowhere save in the theater. More than ever, man loves his comfort . . . There is no longer a surplus of energy for window...