Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your cover portrait of Walter O'Malley will furnish me with an ideal dart board...
...patients usually need most is reassurance about the vast, puzzling range of normal adolescent development. "Anxieties or problems that seem trivial to others," he says, "are very meaningful to teen-agers." The adolescent constantly fears that his or her body is not following the lines of the "ideal" movie star. A girl worries about small breasts; a boy fears that his are overdeveloped. Most frequent complaints: acne, obesity, menstrual "disorders," lack of beard, the skin striations common to fast growth. Not every doctor cares to worry about such normal minutiae. Dr. Roth disagrees...
...voting to bring down Gaillard. Having given Bidault and his policy of even harsher prosecution of the Algerian war a chance, President René Coty next turned to big (6 ft. 2 in.), earnest René Pleven, a middle-of-the-roader who has suggested that the ideal relationship between France and her former colonies would be "a federation of republics...
...atomic-space age. (Sometimes it is inter-sect strife which causes destruction and death, as in India. Sometimes it is the point of view of a sect or sectarian which hinders effective action, as with the student in my Survey of Civilization course who wrote, "World peace is an ideal which can never be reached, for when Christ cast Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden he condemned them and their descendants to sickness, pestilence, death and destruction...
Every so often an administrative coup occurs in the art world in which some large-scale exhibition gets arranged, not according to school, cult, period, or what-have-you, but along lines of that universal artistic ideal which Malraux termed "the museum without walls." The old categorical approach is usually used, however, if not out of sheer inertia, at least for convenience's sake. For the current exhibition at Busch-Reisinger, however, the old method is most appropriate, for there are precious few canvases in the whole lot which transcend their particular philosophy, genre or gestalt...