Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Juan Perón is fond of saying that Plato's ideal of the benevolent philosopher-ruler has at last been achieved in Argentina. Doctor (honoris causa) of the University of Buenos Aires and author of the "20 truths" of Peronismo (social justice, old-age pensions, etc.), Perón sees himself as a sage as well as a strong man. Last week some of Perón's lectures at the Peronista Normal School for party leaders were published in book form in Buenos Aires; they glittered with inside dope on how to grab and hold political...
...fail to recognize that the best education is not necessarily the most expensive. Even if this is a disputable proposition, our circumstances demand that we set ourselves to trying to prove to the world that it is true. Instead, we seem to acquiesce to the stale view that the ideal of a good education is only attainable by means of more and more outlay. We decide, for example, that athletes have their place in a perfect educational scheme, so we include a further subsidy to that department in a tuition rise that is serious enough in itself. Could we perhaps...
...from Buenos Aires, said Peron told him: "I believe it is time for Argentina and Chile to form a political and economic federation." When Rodriguez gingerly mentioned that many Chileans fear that the Argentines would try to dominate such a partnership, Perón guffawed: "In order that this ideal should become reality, I would be willing to let Chile annex Argentina...
...long-playing release by Cambridge Records (CRC 101) he leads the Harvard Glee club in seven pieces of fifteenth and sixteenth century church music. Once again he attempts to reproduce the original performance practices. Instead of the modern ideal of polished clarity, he stresses the vague outlines of the phrases. Instead of using an acoustically perfect hall, he makes the recordings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, whose stone walls most nearly duplicate the resonance of Renaisance churches. But these are not more pedantic touches. While there is very little in a Handel oratorio that requires an eighteenth century type performance...
...highest form of union with God to which man can attain on earth," at once too rigid and too loose. It is too rigid because Merton implies that the monastic, ascetic life is the only way to sainthood. It is too loose because he implies that the monastic ideal can be realized by almost anybody. "Merton ... is in fact a propagandist of mysticism for the masses...