Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John LaFarge, S.J. has worked out for himself the well-balanced combination of faith and reason which St. Thomas Aquinas made the Roman Catholic ideal. He holds deep religious and social convictions but has seldom been known to raise his voice in argument. As a religious journalist, in a field overripe with invective, he has kept his arguments lean, prudent and confidently patient. As he once wrote, "I am not so much trying to persuade people to walk on a certain road, as I am to show them the road that I am convinced they are sooner or later going...
Just because we cannot accept the obligation to guarantee freedom everywhere in the world, we should not abandon the ideal of freedom, McGeorge Bundy, associate professor of Government told a meeting of the U.N. Council of Harvard last night...
...atheism in its classrooms. Not a single member of the faculty "is trying to undermine or destroy our society . . ." Furthermore, "the charge that Yale is encouraging irreligion or atheism is without foundation." The alumni added: "The business of a university is to educate, not to indoctrinate ... In the ideal university, all sides of any issue are presented . . .; all sides, not just those that may be currently popular with the trustees and the alumni . . . This is Yale's policy...
Theater to Come. Liebman believes that TV's technical advances will doom such contemporary makeshifts as remodeled theaters and reconditioned warehouses. He has already blueprinted the ideal TV theater of the future: "It will be a big, empty building measuring 100 by 100 feet, with bleachers at one end for a small audience. One large area will have a 180° cyclorama to form a permanent background for sets and create a genuine illusion of curving space." There should also be a separate property building connected to half a dozen subsidiary studios and a large back lot for outdoor...
...exists on the belief that the robust man, the forceful man, can carry out his idea through totalitarian force. There are two other ideas involved in the play: first, that Alvero's is definitely wrong, that progress should be achieved by another process, and secondly, the present American ideal of democracy...