Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, Pathologist M. C. Botha was working in his laboratory with a sample of Denise's blood. Washkansky's type was A-positive; Denise's was O-negative. She was the ideal "universal donor." There was no time for Dr. Botha to try matching their white blood cells so that the surgeons could estimate how strong a rejection reaction Washkansky's system would mount against the foreign protein of Denise's heart...
...These young men are willing to sacrifice long-nurtured ambitions and almost certain glory for the affirmation of an ideal," the letter continues. "They are saying to their people and the world that gold medals and momentary plaudits are meager consolation for being denied the fundamental right of human dignity...
...attend preliminary meetings on the top floor of Holyoke Center. The organizers of the study decided that, before they break down into subcommittees, they should try to define a model of what they want Harvard to become. This weekend's meetings will aim for a consensus on the ideal college the project should seek, they said...
...escape from old-fashioned routine. Programmed by Stanford Professors Dwight W. Allen and Robert V. Oakford, the university's digital giant has taught schools across the country how to build schedules out of combinations of "modules" as brief as 15 minutes in length, how to put the ideal of all but unlimited flexibility into daily practice...
...consequence, as Jaspers sees it, is that West Germany has become a kind of robot state without a heart. He writes despairingly: "We still have neither roots nor an ideal in politics, no sense of where we come from or where we are going . . . Neither in the operations of our business nor in our passing, swiftly forgotten excitements is there a faith or an ethos." But Jaspers does not leave matters with this harsh judgment. He is more than a gadfly...