Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what Romero sees as the current situation and the coming possibilities differs dramatically from his ideal. The author of one of the many splits of the Argentine Socialist Party, Romero would like to see an industrial system of capitalist dimensions, but controlled by the state and not by the industrialists--who to his mind are as bad as the old oligarchy...
...Your coverage of the Henry R. Luce story [March 10] was so complete that I am requiring students in my History of American Journalism course to read it. Mr. Luce was the ideal journalist-curious, interested, filled with plans. You have captured the man's ability and talents and expressed it all excellently...
...ideal salesman looks honest and talks persuasively and sincerely. An engaging smile, solid handshake, confident tone, and eye-to-eye delivery are the usual tools. If his conversation tends to be folksy without too much familiarity, it is all the better. And if he knows a few well-worn yarns and catchy cliches, why that, too, comes in handy...
George Wilcken Romney has the features of an ideal salesman. His broad shoulders, handsome face, and square jaw give him an athletic look. His dark hair, blending into white at the hairline, adds dignity to his rugged appearance. For most of his 59 years, Romney has been a salesman--now he's the politician with the salesman's style. In public and private, he talks with the same force and verbosity; his speech is quick and idiomatic, and, at the same time, earnest and humorless without a trace of wit or sarcasm. He smiles incessantly, but his laughs are usually...
...Jaroslav Pelikan, the Reformation was a "tragic necessity"-tragic in that it shattered the unity of Christendom, necessary in that it cleansed the church and restored man's faith in God to its Scriptural roots. It is equally true that the Reformation is an unrealized hope and unfinished ideal. Today, says Dr. Wilhelm Pauck of Union Theological Seminary, "one could characterize the spirit of our epoch as pre-Reformation. The old order is in a process of dissolution, but there is also a great positive religious expectancy...