Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomas Merton," as Father Graham sees him, "belongs to the class of writers-intense, one-sided, humorless, propagandist, morally indignant-whose work falls outside the normal canons of criticism . . . Having conceived for himself a sublime ideal, he has heroically given it effect . . . There can be no withholding tribute to the earnestness of his convictions...
...appetizer; the main course is sex. Enter now the good and bad angels of the four men, to conduct them to a neighboring castle where the Sleeping Beauty lies. Each man shall have a chance to wake and win her with a kiss, and each may choose his own ideal time and place for the trial. Having kidded the colonels, Ustinov now kids their national drama. The Sleeping Beauty is wooed in vain in a French period comedy, an Elizabethan verse-play, a languid bit of Chekhov, a Hollywood melodrama...
Most important of all, though, was the decision to intervene in Korea. Had the Communist challenge not been faced, had Korea suffered as Manchuria did almost two decades before, the ideal of collective security would surely have died. Investing the Security Council's power in the UN Assembly, where the veto cannot embalm action, allowed the United States to seek and receive the moral support for the Korean venture which only an international assembly can confer. These measures clearly mark the change in attitude from pre-war shilly-shally to today's resolve...
...note this too: Acheson worked consistently within the traditional ideal of American foreign policy, namely, the deep belief that nations should be left independent, free to choose their own routes to progress. This goal, originally pronounced most explicitly (if a little cynically) in the Open Door policy toward China, has become through Acheson the main weapon against Soviet imperialism. Its moral force and it practical advantages seem lost on those who insist that the free world in exchange for United States money mold itself in the United States' die. They were not lost on Acheson, and thus a proven tradition...
Born. To Elizabeth Taylor, 20, cinemactress (National Velvet, Ivanhoe), and Michael Wilding, 40, British cinemactor (An Ideal Husband): their first child, a son, by Caesarean section; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Michael Howard. Weight...