Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...installed in a museum on the spot. Last week he stood before Augustus' renovated Trophy and gave the keys ceremoniously to French officials. In his good Yankee accent, he declared: ''The Trophy of the Alps represents . . . the magnificent and generous ideal of an ancient civilization . . . and the Pax Romana, which gave three centuries of world peace and prosperity. May they be spread anew among...
...contemporary life. "The theory of present day Fascism may be briefly. expressed as the negation of the Democratic principle." We can hardly deny this, and might also assent to the proposition that in order to forecast the future "it would be necessary to subdivide Faseism and Communism into their ideal and practical forms. We should then be able to contemplate the four alternatives in the pure splendor of their conception...
...will grow stronger; and even if the concrete results of the Committee's efforts are always small, the members of the Committee will have had a chance to gain experience that will always be an asset in their probably more successful endeavors in later life. It is by its ideal and its efforts that the Committee is to be judged rather than by concrete accomplishments...
When, in his first annual report, President Conant made the statement that "a satisfactory balance must be struck between teaching and research," few persons thought that this was anything more than the traditional reference to the traditional, but long-forgotten ideal of combining in one man the brilliant lecturer and the studious laboratory worker. Apparently this reference was more than a meaningless formality, for today the President has acted...
...with Mr. Carl Conway, the president of the board of the Continental Can Company. Normally, one would suppose them to be separated by intellectual and political incompatibilities too great to be reconciled. That these should have been forgotten, even temporarily, is a beautiful tribute to the power of an ideal. Human frailties, vanities, all the pathetic weaknesses of politicians and capitalists recede into the deep diminuendo of momentary oblivion. Oklahoma and Continental Can are at one! Osanna...