Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learning, but there is an undeniable tendency in that direction. What is significant, for a student's understanding of life today comes too often only incidentally. The consideration of ideas directly in their relation to modern society rather than as phenomena of history, if it could be the universities' ideal, might increase immeasurably their contribution to the community...
...suggests to the wife that they leave together. She, sensing the disaster which this would entail, prefers the personal catastrophe of watching his departure from the window, with her husband who still thinks the doctor's child is his own. The play lacks surface too much to be an ideal vehicle for the cinema in general or for Ruth Chatterton in particular. Her performance, like that of Paul Lukas, as the doctor, and the late Robert Ames, as the husband, has a studied competence which leaves Tomorrow and Tomorrow the cold outline of a spurious dilemma instead of a tragedy...
...yesterday's Block Foundation lecture had the novelty of being an address that said something. It was a relief from the meaningless mouthings to which prominent men have treated the American public lately. The modern demagogue would have ranted endlessly about freedom of the press being a "glorious ideal cemented in the hearts of the American pee-pul by our great constitooshun." Mr. Bliven analyzed the facts and presented his conclusion that free speech was well on the road to suppression. Whether or not his reasoning was correct, he at least had something more than trite catch-words to utter...
Democracy and literacy, as popularly conceived, have nothing to do with education. Democracy, says Professor Nock, "must aim at no ideals above those of the average man. ..." A 100% literate populace, creditable as an ideal, is of no use if the literates read nothing but the "garbage shot upon the public from the presses of the country...
Zimbalist's playing is an almost ideal blend of emotion and intellect. Boxofficially he has been outdone by Kreisler and Heifetz, in one case by emotional appeal, in the other by technical facility. But Zimbalist's prestige has been slowly, steadily growing since he was 9 and playing first violin in his father's orchestra in the Cossack city of Rostov-on-Don. When he was 12 his mother took him to Petrograd to study with Leopold Auer. Until the time of Auer's death, Zimbalist, an acclaimed virtuoso, went to him for advice...