Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Accolades for your splendid story [Jan. 21 ] on magnificent Macmillan. Mac is truly the ideal democratic aristocrat...
...noise that bothered Uchinada's villagers; it was the Americans. After all, the Japanese army had used the same area as a proving ground during World War II. To Japan's anti-American left-wing Socialists and Communists, however, the opening of the new range seemed an ideal opportunity to dramatize Japanese opposition to U.S. military bases. Agitators poured into the village, harping on the bordello shantytowns that had sprung up around other U.S. bases and the horrid fate that Uchinada's women could expect to suffer at the hands of the G.I.s. Soon sweating demonstrators, their...
What should the ideal School of Tomorrow be like? Over the years, the U.S. has heard some pretty wild ideas from educational reformers, but not many have gone so far as the school-architecture firm of Caudill, Rowlett, Scott & Associates of Bryan, Texas. One of the top firms of its kind in the U.S., Caudill & Co. describes in the current School Executive a model school which, however exciting architecturally, would make U.S. education all but unrecognizable...
...Caudill et al. built their school, there would be no more set schedules for classes, no separate grades for different age groups, no barriers between subjects. Nor would there be any definite dividing line between the school and the home. Their ideal campus is in the shape of an octopus whose tentacles stretch out from the Center into the residential areas, providing pupils and adults alike with "tennis courts, baseball, football, soccer fields, skating rinks, as well as bird sanctuaries, botanical gardens and nature-study groves...
Ferdinand de Lesseps was the ideal 19th century man, a living embodiment of the "poetry of capitalism." His cheerful cry. "Open the world to the people!'' was echoed by the industrialists and investors of his time. The Suez Canal was to be only a beginning: De Lesseps dreamed of making an inland sea in the Sahara Desert, and of uniting Paris, Moscow, Peking and Bombay with a vast intercontinental railway...