Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Though it called Eisenhower "far from ideal," Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune reluctantly endorsed him as a means of "strengthening the antiSocialist, Republican vote in Congress." ¶The Milwaukee Journal, which last backed a Democratic candidate for President in 1936, announced that it was for Stevenson...
...every town and village in Europe, from the Ural Mountains to the channel ports, that truth is known ... to the Czech, the Pole, the Hungarian who takes his life in his hands and crosses the frontier tonight-or to the Italian who goes to some American consulate-this ideal that beckoned him can be a mirage because of the McCarran Act. With leadership . . . we should have had and we must get a better...
...Grazia's panacea for mental ills has three parts: 1) recognition of the moral nature of the neurotic problem, 2) an institution to give moral assistance promptly wherever needed, and 3) a model man of ideal character, in whose image patients would be remade...
...many of them cling tightly to cold ferocity and suppress the feeblest spasms of affection. Satirist Evelyn Waugh has been no exception, but he is one of the few of his kind who has found the conflict between satirical art and goodness of heart a nagging, challenging problem. His ideal is the simple, honest "Christian gentleman"; Waugh cherishes things romantic, patriotic and traditional. Moreover, he is a religious man, whose irrepressible satirical arrogance is at variance with his sense of Christian humility...
...Warrior. Ritchie-Hook is anything but a saint. Like many a Crusader, he fights simply because he loves "blood and gunpowder." Hand-to-hand scrapping is his ideal: "Everything else [in war]," he assures Guy, "is just bumf and telephones." His pursuit of his ideal has left him with "a single, terrible.eye . . . black as the patch which hung on the other side of the lean, skew nose." His smile is a grim baring of carnivorous teeth; he grasps his cocktail glass in "a black claw" consisting of "two surviving fingers and half a thumb." He is fond of discoursing...