Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thirteen years he spent at the University, Walter Gropius became almost a spiritual leader of the Graduate School of Design. To the outside world he was the school; to much of the faculty, he, not Dean Joseph Hudnut, set the policy; and to the students, he was the ideal architect, the master mold into which they poured their talents...
...school can run two types of deficits. The Medical School, for instance, had no trouble at all balancing its budget on the books last year. But when it came to balancing an ideal research and teaching program with its endowments, the Medical faculty had to cut its program drastically, settling for an academic rather than a financial deficit...
...many a Parisian, the romantic arrangements of Auguste Chaussumier, salesman of pinball machines, must have seemed ideal and idyllic. Little Auguste had a lovely mistress, and the mistress had a husband who was safely employed some 3,000 miles away from Paris, in the Cameroons. Even Lucienne, the light of Auguste's love, thought the arrangement was pretty sound. But Salesman Auguste was as conventional as he was devoted: he wanted only to marry his mistress...
...objection to women in the House during afternoons is the same tired horse that has carried countless messages of rejection before, the doctrine of protection--protection, in this case, from one's roommates, House mates, and oneself. Apparently, the Administrative Board is concerned with the all-Harvard House ideal, where students who wish to study, meditate, palaver, or what have you are free from feminine interruptions. Between for and seven, the argument goes, it's time for entertainment and no one works anyway. But, during the afternoon the alarms and excursions involved in allowing girls to overrun the Houses...
Romantic Man dreams of being marooned on a desert island with one ideal woman. Romantic Woman dreams of being marooned with a wide choice of men. Last week a comely 32-year-old Okinawa-born widow named Kazuko Higa arrived in Tokyo for a burlesque tour, during which she planned to tell Japanese audiences what it was like to be marooned alone for five years with 31 men. It was not, she implied, all that it might...