Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teamwork. Probably this lack of passionate convictions has helped make Kaufman the ideal collaborator. His adaptable, accommodating mind is geared to avoid collisions. It is also geared to let the other fellow's personality, rather than Kaufman's, permeate the play. What colors Beggar on Horseback, for example, is the pleasantly housebroken imaginativeness of Marc Connelly; what colors The Royal Family is the romantic bustle of Edna Ferber. The plays Kaufman has written with Moss Hart are better fused because, as comic playwrights, the two men are cut to much the same pattern...
These research workers say that the ideal comparison would be to compare the life span of the oarsmen with that of their contemporary fellow students, instead of comparing it with those who would not have the same advantages as to food, air, and exercise as these college oarsmen...
...unity of Great Germany in itself an ignoble ideal. ... It was not the incorporation of Austria and the Sudeten Germans in the Reich which so much shocked public opinion in the world as the unscrupulous and hateful methods which Herr Hitler employed to precipitate an incorporation which would probably have peacefully come in due course of its own volition and in accordance with the established principle of self-determination...
...only answer that seems to be at all evident is that no set rule of the ideal crew man can be made. It is true that while Bolles did try a particularly tall crew and a shorter, stockier crew in a race, the shorter crew won, but looking over the members of both crews it seems fairly obvious that the outcome of the race might have been predicted on the quality of oarsmen alone...
...concluded that educators should hope that the American ideal is not an illusion and labor unceasingly for a type of education which will create "social mobility...