Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Part of the trouble, says Davis, longtime (ten years) political reporter and editorial writer on the New York Times, comes from an "overemphasis on speed" -the rush to be first with the news. But a more basic reason is that U.S. newspapers, pursuing the ideal of "objectivity," "lean over backward so far that it makes the news business merely a transmission belt for pretentious phonies." Most newspapers, says Davis, still cling to the rule that news columns must print only as many sides or facts of an issue as a reporter has found. Interpretation must be kept on the editorial...
...baseball scout, the ideal pitcher is a rangy, muscular six-footer who can rear back and burn the ball across the plate all afternoon. Such a man was Lefty ("Old Mose") Grove (6 ft. 1½in., 170 Ibs.), the pitcher who in 1931 won 31 games (four losses) for the Philadelphia Athletics. When the Athletics' Scout Ira Thomas, still in search of a new-day Grove, took a look at stocky (5 ft. 7 in., 143 Ibs.) Bobby Shantz, he echoed other scouting reports on the little lefthander: "The general opinion is that Shantz is too small...
...Defined as those 10% or more above the ideal weight for any given height and body build...
Fruitful hours that have formed an ideal...
...despite this, Conant, unlike Lowell, saw hope that the members of the class of 1952 could attain a practical ideal--not the hazy and distant ideal of Lowell. Quoting Horace Mann that one should "be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity," Conant prophesized that the members of 1952 will be given "the privilege of making the reformer once again a highly respected though bitterly controversial figure" who "will forge new tools with which to reshape our American democracy to meet a continuously changing technological civilization...