Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Troy W. Appleby of Ohio National Life Insurance Co., Utility Lobbyist Hugh Stewart Magill, Banker Henry Samuel Henschen, and some 30 others. Good Methodists all, they were thoroughly alarmed over Methodism's leftward trend. They prepared a statement deploring substitution of "economic and social systems for the Christian ideal of individual responsibility and freedom of choice...
...years ago when the Government decided to subsidize painting, particularly murals, it was obvious that Ellis Island was an ideal place for a project. The aliens' dining hall was a room 98 ft. by 68 ft., with bare walls crying for decoration. First shot at this ambitious scheme was given to a Japanese artist named Hideo Noda. Before final execution his designs had to be approved by the local Immigration Commissioner...
Shot 2?Diego Rivera's art is not revolutionary because it fails to portray the Communist ideal...
...Millis hates war. So strong is his hatred, so convinced is he that war is an inexcusable crime against civilization, that he blinds himself to the fact that men can be sincere in fighting for an ideal, whether or no that ideal be created by propagandists in pursuance of economic interests. Moreover, underlying the bitter sting which is present on every page, there is a current of assumption that had the war been won by Germany, the world would be little different today. Frequently Mr. Millis refers contemptuously to the idea, widely held in the spring of 1917 that...
...Hollywood's leading stars, Katharine Hepburn is possibly the least versatile. It is precisely this limitation which made her the ideal choice for the role of Alice. The woebegone grimaces, the expressions, half childish and half addle-headed, which she uses to convey youth's nameless longings and which are often so startlingly misplaced in her portrayals of women of the world, are those which make her portrayal of a girl whom she really understands her masterpiece to date. The supremely difficult feat of characterizing a poseuse so as to mock the poses without mocking the person behind...