Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another man's ordeal. At 83, Herbert Hoover trespasses only to bear gifts, and he crosses party lines to do it. In The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson, he gives a generous salute to an idealist whose tragedy was quite simply that he did not live in an ideal world...
...semi-sober group shouts nonsense while the novitiate attempts to read his part. It is usually not even witty, and it is certainly never an academic discipline. There has recently been a move to reform these affairs, and the next initiation is expected to return to the ideal of the days of Kittredge...
...this situation it is incumbent upon the President to avoid committing Harvard to any official religious belief, including his own. Harvard's greatness today depends on its lack of institutional commitment to any faith but faith in the scholarly ideal and in the universality implicit in such an ideal...
Conant's concept of the ideal school is not an attempt to segregate students according to ability. All students would share the same homerooms and lunch hours, and would be allowed to take some courses in an upper or lower level...
...hunk of wood and sit down with you." This air of sincerity is Clark's biggest attraction. Though ABC has mailed out 300.000 of his photographs since last summer, boyishly handsome Clark believes that most teen-agers see him less as a romantic idol than as the ideal big brother who understands their problems. On the problem of rock 'n' roll, Clark says: "Teenagers have always liked stuff their parents couldn't stand...