Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said Trilling: "[Freud] lived by the inner light; he saw life under the aspect of personal heroism and believed that virtue consisted in making truth prevail against the resistance of society . . . Such a personality makes but a limited appeal to our increasingly 'other-directed' society with its ideal of blandness and cooperation and its suspiciousness of personal preeminence and self-assertion . . . A few years ago, a hostile biographer . . . made it a chief part of her indictment of Freud that he actually believed that his ideas were right, that he sought to make them prevail, that...
...student body as much as possible we admit a much higher proportion of qualified students from the outlying area." Ireland frankly admits that he would like to have more Western applications--although he personally feels that currently no matter how many applications Columbia receives, it will stick to its ideal three part ratio: one third of the students from the metropolitan area, one third of the students from within a 50 mile radius, and one third from the rest of the United States. This ratio, however, is right now more an ideal one than a working...
Although the dates have not been announced, the subjects of his spring lectures will be: "The Human as an Ideal," "The Illusion of the Real," "The Realization of the Dream," and "A New Reality...
...seen a man killed in a riot, is disenchanted with the dangers of putting her ideal of freedom into practice, has fallen out of love and is escaping to Europe. "Where do people like us belong?" she cries. "Not with the whites screaming to hang onto white supremacy. Not with the blacks-they don't want us. So where?" But even as she leaves, she knows that she will return and that she has "accepted disillusion as a beginning rather than...
...Harvard prides itself on being a school of individualists. A look at the student body will bear this out. The ideal is the student who goes his own searching way without any restrictive group relationships like fraternities, class loyalties--or friends...