Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court last week, a "lightning love" for the mayor struck her. She explained it all to Jean, who dutifully consulted his party superiors in Paris. Then he decided to give up Yvonne, provided that 1) the mayor get him a visa for Poland, "where I could work for my ideal"; and 2) the lovers keep their relationship respectable until he left...
...Nationalism" is an equally irrelevant term. Since their destruction and partition in 1945, the "Reich" and the "nation" have simply not been realities to the Germans. The very meager successes of the noisy "nationalist" parties signify more protest against existing economic inadequacies than passion for a political ideal...
...politics, as in other branches of morals, it is easy to be right in ideal circumstances. The heart of the matter is to be right in the circumstances that exist; these are never ideal, often ghastly...
...ideal end result would be a limited-telecast situation in which all colleges playing in one section would receive a share of the high television-intake of the Big Game. Until the trial period withered away, however, no college could be televised more than twice--once at home and once away--and 60 percent of the TV profit would go to the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center to pay for a study of the nation-wide effects of the trial...
Eliot's lecture was the first in the Theodore Spencer Memorial Series. The poet traced the journal of his explorations in dramatic poetry. He said his ideal was poetry which intensifies rather than interrupts the dramatic situation--achieved by the fusion of drama and poetry into a form which approaches music...