Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student at Cambridge's Trinity College, he worked for the New York Herald Tribune before joining TIME from 1936 to 1949, mainly as a book reviewer. He went to Harvard's English department to lecture on comparative literature only last fall, considers his new position ideal. "Only by a favorable conspiracy of circumstances -and in this case a great university -can a man in my position devote himself to verse," he says. What grace the conspiracy may bring is suggested by his poem of the early '30s, "Winter Night...
More than 7800 New England college students, including 900 Harvard men and 32 Cliffies will receive the names of their ideal dates tomorrow, as determined by the "Operation Match" computer...
Eighty per cent of the men reported that they looked first for physical attractiveness in an ideal date. The girls' preferences were divided evenly between desirable personality and physical attractiveness...
...Review is at its best when it discusses specifics. "Identity-at Harvard and Harvard's Identity," despite its overblown title, details a study of twenty-four Harvard freshmen made in 1959 by David Ricks and Robert McCarley. They compare ideal "public" and "private" students in order to assess the impact college had on each group and find that contrary to myth the preppie possesses deeper anxiety and undergoes greater change because he, unlike the boy from City High, is less prepared by his secondary school culture to fit into the "new" Harvard--a college in which the premium value...
...visit of the Moscow Art Theatre, critics have begun to talk of the "theatre gap" between Moscow and New York and to point out the artistic advantages of repertory. Such a company can devote more care to the preparation of a play and use its best talent for an ideal casting of every part. It can present a new play one week and a classic the next, and it need not rely on the big hit or the star for financial success. The Moscow Art this season, with a company of 140 actors, is running 33 productions, of which...