Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken her husband from her. "I have two seats," the first Mrs. Debussy told Mary Garden. "Claude is here with me." After the performance the two wives met and wept together in Mary Garden's dressing room. For Debussy, as for the world, Mary Garden was his ideal interpreter. In the score of her Pelleas et Melisande he wrote: "In the future others may sing Melisande but you alone will remain the woman and the artist I had hardly dared hope...
...likeness of John Harvard having been preserved, the statue by Daniel C. French in the College Yard and the stained glass portrait at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, are both ideal representations. Sherman Hoar of the Class of 1882 posed for the sculptor but the statue does not pretend to be a likeness of Hoar...
...fanatical football fans even though it knows this to be "wrong" is foreign to the traditions of any free educational institution and to Harvard in particular. If an educational institution stands for anything it should stand for intellectual and moral honesty. Your suggestion that it should depart from this ideal (I do not deny than in the past it has not been constantly adhered to unfortunately) is a disgrace to your own integrity...
...risk of being Lippmannish I should like to add that the rest of the editorial in my opinion is good, and no one can fail to support your stand for moderation in Harvard football. For moderation is the Greek ideal, and of all peoples they were most successful in the art of physical recreation. V.H. Kramer...
...Road to Rome (1927-28). He swung another in Death Takes a Holiday (1930-31). He swung a third in Mary of Scotland (1934). His melancholy face with its skin stretched across the cheekbones like rawhide on a saddle frame, his clipped speech and full-stopped voice make him ideal for impersonating tragic historical figures. In spite of a tilted, completely un-Washingtonian nose, he admirably conveys an entirely credible portrait of the great general's sombre personality...