Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearty enjoyment of ife." As a measuring rod for gauging the well-balanced man and nation. Dr. Lin submits a formula based on a blend of realism ("R"), dreams ("D"), humor ("H"), sensibility ("S"), qualified by 4 (abnormally high), 3 (high), 2 (fair) and 1 (low). The ideal formula, says Dr. Lin, is R3D2H352 (a middle-of-the-road balance). Nearest to this ideal are the English, one point low on humor and sensibility. The Germans, Japanese and Russians make the worst showing, being much too high on dreams, much too low on humor and sensibility. The Americans...
...Ends and Means, his most ambitious non-fiction work to date. Huxley states his full gospel. For 30 centuries, he says, all men have agreed on man's ideal goal: liberty, peace, justice, brotherly love. The catch has been that nobody could agree on which road to take. Now "most of the peoples of the world are rapidly moving away from it. . . .At no period of the world's history has organized lying been practiced so shamelessly. . . . Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." First step in the right direction, says Huxley...
Stating that "most observers would agree that Russia is far from having realized the ideal of complete social equality," Michael Karpovich, assistant professor of History, last night discussed the subject "Russia: Twenty Years After" in the eighth broadcast of the series sponsored by the Guardian...
Bill Bingham and Dick Harlow and the Harvard ideal of teams composed of men who are primarily students and athletes afterward have received their share of fully merited praise from a wildly happy college. The Harvard system of subordinating athletics has been fully vindicated. But in all the post-game delirium there is one group whose part in the great victory is, because of its obvious magnitude, apt to be overlooked...
...just doesn't pan out that way. Only those who are sufficiently fond of classical music to sit through some pretty poor sequences are advised to go. We submit the same advice to lovers of more popular music, for Bing Crosby's "Double or Nothing" is far from the ideal musical comedy...