Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...millions depending on mining. To many miners full of moonshine, discharging their revolvers in the streets of Leadville, to many others dancing with girls atop the bars of Tonopah, happiness had already been brought. There were only a few grumblers, men who had stuck to the old Bryan ideal of silver at 16-to-1. At that day's gold price ($34.06) the ratio became...
...cities throughout the land. Paramount could well feel that it had done its level best to make Christmas bright and merry for millions of youngsters. Who was to play Alice was Paramount's Problem No. 1. Charles Laughton, not altogether facetiously, suggested that Jean Harlow would make an ideal Carroll heroine. Paramount settled the matter by means of a '"contest" in which some 7,000 would-be Alices were considered. After a minimum of hemming and hawing the prize role was given to a pretty round-faced 17-year-old girl from Brooklyn, N. Y. named Charlotte Henry...
...more concerned with style than he used to be, and his concern is to render it invisible. What he wants is "a style that is not only unseen but utterly unperceived. A complete negation of style...Give the reader a fact, not a phrase." This ideal, which implies a drastic cleavage between style and content, is shared by most of his contemporaries. They are all experts with a scalpel, and most of them are eager that their art should be popular; the combination of function and desire calls for an adroit but unobtrusive style...
...importance of all this cannot be overemphasized. America has been an expanding, jubilant, barbarically confident country, with a whole untouched continent to exploit. In this milieu the dominant fact was economic growth and amassing of wealth. Naturally this became the American ideal, most blatantly expressed by the American Magazine (properly named, indeed.) The movies early responded to this and provided the delectable pleasures of Park Avenue, the European resorts, and all that goes with them under a rosy hue. It was all represented as a glorious Paradise right here on earth...
...course system can grow side by side with this ideal of education so long as that ideal is in its infancy. In the beginning an abandonment of course credits might have meant formlessness and confusion. But as the tutorial system and the house plan mature they will produce a kind of undergraduate for whom the course method of instruction is both too elementary and too dogmatic, for the man who has learned to the stage where progress must come by asking questions, of men and of books, is not satisfied by an orderly and unilateral presentation. If the degree...