Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other words the Union is merely to increase goodness and fairness and freedom, and to diminish evil and injustices and "reaction." Any man who does not support this ideal sort of organization is obviously a naughty, unsocial, unprincipled, Reactionnary...
Sportsmanship and Hitler are far from bedmates, but even Germany's most embittered opponents will agree that the ideal of the Olympic games has always been one of international amity and fair play. In supporting such a principle, American athletes should suppress their personal feelings about the internal affairs of the host and make only one demand upon the German government. This demand is that no discrimination against any racial or religious group should take place during the Olympics or in the events preparatory to them...
...little red schoolhouse of two generations ago, but if that little red schoolhouse was presided over by a teacher of rich and warm personality with a genius for impressing himself upon the group of pupils of various ages and stages of advancement which surrounded him, it was an almost ideal educational instrumentality...
...smother noble ambition; to follow a worthy ideal is very fine indeed. But the highest aspirations must be tempered with reason, and a bit of advice offered in good faith should be accepted in good faith. When the meek assistant in Economics A or Government I barges into a basement room of the New Lecture Hall, slams the door, slaps his brief-case upon the desk, and whacks his hat on top of the brief-case, he does not produce the desired effect of exciting the admiration and awe of his class. Rather is the reaction one of perplexity...
...fully exemplifies Author Wallis' conclusions regarding the proper conduct for a modern politician is Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York. Passing all the tests of viewing with alarm, pointing with pride and gaining unfavorable publicity in the right places, Hamilton Fish Jr. impresses Author Wallis as the ideal candidate except for his Harvard education. He will, says Author Wallis firmly, be the Republican nominee for President before...