Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benevolent aristocracy may be the ideal form of government, provided the Olympian Elect can be found to direct it. But undoubtedly a situation where the older, more settled members of any department have a deciding voice in advancement and tenure provides a huge hole through which abuses may pour in. There is a possibility that the conscious or unconscious prejudices of the older members will determine their decisions, or that points of view not in agreement with theirs will be excluded so that the department becomes narrow and biased. The current Feild controversy is a case in point. There...
What Colonel Beck would regard as an ideal state of affairs is an Eastern Europe in which the Soviet Union and Germany were continually mad at but not fighting each other. A cynical and unscrupulous latter-day Talleyrand, Colonel Beck believes in playing all horses at one time, but putting no great amount of money on any one. The "ironclad" alliance with France is still theoretically good, but so are the German and Russian non-aggression treaties. In a Franco-German war one of them would have to be broken, but that does not trouble the conscience of Colonel Beck...
When the Judge Hardy series started out as minor second features, they had captured an ideal combination of humor and sentiment; now, as was probably inevitable, their success has prompted Hollywood to less care in their making, and they have become stereotyped. This is partly due, of course, to the fact that the audience knows perfectly well what is going to happen. They know that the Judge will become heavily involved in a deal and nearly lose everything; that Marion will fall in love with the wrong man, and have quite a time until her exasperatingly benevolent father straightens things...
Among the 30 encyclicals which Pius XI gave to the world, one of the greatest was Quadragesima Anno, in which he upheld the rights of labor and set forth an ideal Catholic program condemning equally the extremes of unrestrained Capitalism and Communism. Nowhere did the Church attempt to translate this encyclical into political action. And everywhere Pius XI maintained a traditional policy of dealing politically with the States of the world-negotiating concordats wherever possible -upon any terms which recognized the validity of the Church's mission on earth. That policy led the Church into some dilemmas, could very...
Although the words "liberal" and "democrat" are becoming more and more meaningless, they are the only adjectives that can adequately describe the character and work of Louis Brandeis. For this man throughout his career has been a fighter for the democratic ideal. Never content with a single triumph, he realized that the only safeguard of democracy was eternal vigilance. And this idea prompted his unceasing opposition to the forces of reaction, as his background so well illustrates...