Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brandenburg and Lascoe made an ideal team. To familiarize high-school students with democratic government, they organized a U.S.-style "Youth Day." Stuffed shirts groused, "It's not a German idea." But Youth...
...Almost everyone feels that the presidency is too difficult and wearing a job now for one man. It seems an ideal time to make the position of Vice President a more responsible one. How about President Eisenhower to handle international affairs, Vice President Warren to take care of domestic issues? I would like two brains for the price of one vote...
...revelation. By now, the Post's formula for revelation has become pat: a continuous series of wordy but provocative sketches of favorite Post whipping boys, e.g., Senator McCarthy, Walter Winchell, Westbrook Pegler. When U.S.A. Confidential began making headlines and the bestseller lists, Wechsler spotted ideal subjects for his next serial scorcher: the book's authors, the New York Mirror's editor, Jack Lait, and its nightclub columnist, Lee Mortimer, who are already defendants in twelve libel suits for their offhand reporting (TIME...
...make like Earthlings. This fellow teaches them compassion, and thus foils the plot. But alas, these poor visitors were never taught how deceitful we Earthlings really are, and they must "go down beneath the ravening fury of rending and destroying man always displays when he meets his ideal face to face." Thus we are robbed of a happy ending after...
...They have not be thought themselves where they are. Impressed with the organized fun of a Hammonasset Day, imbued with the planned debauchery of a Winter Carnival they have destroyed Harvard men's "splendid isolation." With their colleagues of the water pistols and ink-squirters they have made the ideal of gentlemanly living a hollow mockery...