Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third difficulty of the Dallas Fair was to make its visitors comfortable. Fearful that ignoramuses from distant States would not regard Texas as the ideal summer recreation grounds which they claim it to be, the Fair's managers announced that 80% of its buildings would be air-cooled. More ambitious were the Fair's publicity men who announced that Dallas would be cooled every evening by breezes from the Gulf of Mexico (250 miles away). More serious than heat was the question of housing. For a city such as Chicago, with over 3,000,000 population, to welcome...
...remarks on Rousseau's Confessions: "JeanJacques can hardly be called detestable, yet he is certainly not likeable. And it is hard to say why. . " . There is something in it which is at bottom revolting. He is totally without some hard aristocratic stuff which is necessary to the ideal composition...
Senator Borah by no means makes an ideal candidate, but he does have ideas worth incorporating into the party program. His theme song, and indeed he sings little else, is a dirge of hate directed at monopoly in all its forms, particularly the big-industry and labor-union privilege and the farmer privilege which the NRA and AAA represented. Ideas of this sort go at a premium. It may even be hoped--now that the Democratic Party has in effect defaulted upon its free-trade principles--that the high tariff mania and its favoritism to special groups may be modified...
...Biblical times, thousands of men met in the middle of a plain and slashed one another until only a few were left standing. Today, the primary aim is not to kill but to incapacitate. And poison gas is an ideal method of achieving that...
...least only the very rare exception will be able to do it. Mr. Conant himself would be capable of the job; one or two others now on the faculty stand out as definite potential candidates. But as a general rule the combination research-teacher is only an ideal in the eyes of undergraduates. Excellent teachers who are not research men will have to be kept on the faculty; excellent research men, who are not teachers, are just as necessary. Meantime, Mr. Conant has demanded that all his faculty turn to research; he has unfortunately scared many so that they plunge...