Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech opened and closed on the vein of the Jeffersonian ideal, "to cull from every condition of our people the natural aristocracy of talent and virtue...
...Jefferson's ideal must be achieved . . . our children will see what the world has never witnessed: a nation in which basic education is truly universal and careers are open to the talented drawn from every class and section of the land...
...organize heckler squads to break up Student Union meetings. I remember when Ralph Bates spoke for the Loyalists in Spain, many conservatives were present; but not only did they refrain from hissing, they even did not ask questions that would harass the speakers. They conducted themselves under the ideal that one should attend a lecture to listen, and not to prevent others from enjoying...
Both organizations pay lip service to the lofty ideal of Free Inquiry, but with uncrring judgment the student body has given its patronage, and not a few of its nickles and dimes, to the group which chose to burlesque this ideal. But this is not all. Once gathered before the rostrum of James and Santayana, they pilloried the woman who stood there. With conduct that smacked of Union, Square they threw courtesy to the winds, catcalled, heiled, and howled...
Oneway roads are the ideal solution to the night-time traffic problem but Roper doubted that they were practically possible during the present generation...