Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter had slipped out of the country alone to marry an American G.I. Because of her flight, Bedrich's bakery was confiscated. The old man went to work for his son Marian, the foreman of a local lumberyard, and came to realize that the lumberyard itself provided an ideal avenue of escape for himself and his family. A flatcar of lumber due for export, he reasoned, could easily be loaded in such a way that a space of two cubic yards would be left free inside. Muffled within such a rolling coffin, even the cries of the children should...
Catherine Luce's set, with its tiny buildings, evokes the elfish, mystic atmosphere intended by Yeats. The bare stones and columns of the Fogg museum Court form a stage that is ideal in effect, if not in flexibility And in Purgatory, the starkness of a single block of stone in the center of the dimly lit stage is appropriately forbidding...
...Ideal Combination...
Mendel said, "I think it's an ideal combination to have a teacher so experienced and so keen on athletics in a position where both qualities are needed. I don't see how we could get a better...
...University officials and Education School professors say it would be impossible to find a man better suited to be dean. Keppel combines all the story--book qualities that an ideal executive must have: brilliance, youth, original ideas, an engaging personality, and a knack for getting things done quickly. Last spring, when he decided his faculty lacked men who were experienced in practical education administration, he flew to Chicago, and offered the city's superintendent of schools a professorship. Herold C. Hunt, one of the nation's best known and most successful educators, turned down a contract renewal and took...