Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suffering that 1938 brought the world, no man suffered more than Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's last Minister to Great Britain. It was not important to him that he lost his job. The important things he lost were a country and an ideal, founded by his late great father, which he himself had worked 20 years to preserve. Last week Jan Masaryk was in the U. S., putting what was left to him-as proud a name as there is in Europe-to work not for the Czechs but for democracy in general and persecuted Jews in particular...
...this Western Hemisphere we have, under a common ideal of democratic government, a rich diversity of resources and of peoples functioning together in mutual respect and peace...
...object toward which these steps are directed is, of course, admirable. But the steps themselves are unsatisfactory in their failure to go far enough. It is not necessary that every student take English A. But it is ideal that every student take some composition course during his college career, if not, by compulsion, at least by strong recommendation. Composition cuts across fields of concentration--in later years it may be as useful to the chemist as to the English concentrator--and hence such a procedure would not be vulnerable to the usual criticisms of regimentation and preplanning...
There is no logical reason to believe that Hitler would act any differently if he were a happy husband and father, when the normal domestic claims have not taken the sting out of Papa Goebbels or made of Papa Goring the ideal Santa Claus for 1938. Sorry, girls, but when it comes to dictators, you just don't seem to make much headway. EDWARD T. MCNAMARA...
...which believe they follow Christ-had become immeasurably greater for what it was than for what it might attempt to do. In spite of its apparent disunity, the Church, alone among human institutions, stood for the universal brotherhood of man, the unity of the human race. To that far ideal the Church still kept its faith; on Christmas 1938 took courage once again from the oldest and dearest story it knew: "Lo, the star, which they saw in the East, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child...