Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideal field for future doctors and engineers, or for those interested simply in a broad general education background, is History and Science, a relative newcomer to fields of concentration...
Walter M. Ulin '54, president of Ivy Films, last night contradicted the Monitor report, saying that his group had ordered the film "Emperor Jones" from a distributor's catalogue, but that the distributor, Ideal Pictures, Inc., had later withdrawn it. "They thought of some lame excuse," he said...
...ancient Greeks had high philosophic ideals, but the best of them, including Plato, ran into a great deal of difficulty trying to set up standards of personal morality. In their uninstructed search for the true and the beautiful, writes Bruckberger, they "gave to bodily beauty the character of a religious revelation." Since they felt that beauty should be enjoyed, the figure of the courtesan became not at all a shameful one. To Father Bruckberger, the clever courtesan Mary Magdalene symbolizes in the Gospels the outward beauty of the Greek ideal as well as its moral shortcomings...
...belittled--he just does not exist. The play On Baile's Strand sees Cuchalain, the brave, and Conchubar, the wise, parodied by a fool and a blind beggar as a counterpoise. But Yeats is not laughing at his heroes; he is ironically presenting the extremes and tacitly assuming his ideal universal. For his poetry to hit the listener at full power, it must be completely accepted in this context. And when his plays are performed, the actors must carry a delicate bundle to their audience without crushing, smudging, or dropping...
...Misers, an opera-comique by Gretry, opened last night as the annual production of the Lowell House Musical Society. The Lowell House dining hall, with its ornate chandeliers, provided an ideal setting for this engaging eighteenth century trifle which is to be repeated tonight...