Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high unofficial gold prices, yet not break the fund's rules against selling monetary (24-karat) gold at premiums, it began selling premium-priced 22-karat gold in the form of crudely made goblets, statuettes and other "artistic" trinkets, e.g. spoons weighing ½ lb., that were ideal for hoarding...
...reaching implications are expected in the field of child training methods. Pigeons, Professor Skinner maintains, are ideal subjects, living five times as long as laboratory rats and possessing a reaction time comparable to humans...
...bold proposal by France's Robert Schuman to pool French and German coal & steel industries (TIME, May 22) produced a burst of hope and revived, with a fresh urgency, the ideal of Western Europe's integration. But as the West set about examining the Schuman idea a little more closely, it also made a lot of people extremely nervous...
...literary dark ages a great renaissance would be born. Unfortunately, his plans for helping along that renaissance are reminiscent of his later harebrained schemes for the world's monetary salvation. Artists in America should be crowded into great academies and subsidized, thought Pound, preferably by millionaires. His ideal of the subsidized artist is best expressed in his anecdote about the Sultan of Zammbuck who, during a British state dinner, was once asked about the state of the arts back in Zammbuck...
...Vanderputte stands up for the dignity of man and humanitarian optimism; the police official, Kuhl, stands up for Communism and the need for iron discipline. Vanderputte turns out to have been a traitor who betrayed a whole Resistance group to the Germans; Kuhl is blackmailing him while waiting the ideal moment to denounce...