Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bruening said that the fundamental problems of democratic government are long and difficult of solution, and had been worked for unceasingly in Germany. Changing his tone, he observed that "they are easily solved under a totalitarian state," where no attempt is made to preserve the ideal of self-government...
...ringleader or bully recalcitrant thinkers into jumping through the hoops of his own individual dogma, is a refreshing change from the drama the nation has been witnessing in Washington. The Council of Government Concentrators has inaugurated a mode of informal debate peculiarly fitted to the Harvard--and the democratic --ideal of freedom of discussion...
...Becket concurred with the King's wishes, we should have had an almost ideal state; a union of spiritual and temporal administration, under the central government . . . And what happened? The moment that Becket, at the King's instance, had been made Archbishop . . . and he became more priestly than the priests, he ostentatiously and offensively adopted an ascetic manner of life, he openly abandoned every policy that he had heretofore supported; he affirmed immediately that there was a higher order than that which our King, and he as the King's servant, had for so many years striven to establish...
More remarkable than the fact that a music publisher and band impresario had thus set up an ideal outlet for his melodies and minstrels was the fact that Mr. Mills has cornered enough talent and is enough of a power in the popular music industry to make it worth American Record's while to deal with him as an independent producer. Last year Irving Mills turned down $750,000 from Twentieth Century-Fox for the properties of Mills Music, Inc., which owns the world's largest collection of copyrighted popular tunes. On the books of Mills Artists...
After posing for shots with his sisters of the ballet, Earle proceeded to discuss the beauty situation in the country. "The ideal type of beauty," he said, "is the v-shaped, angular girl. Females of the country have too many curves as shown by the typical student at Radcliffe...