Word: idealized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...busiest mind in the Supreme Court. "Work keeps me young," said Justice Holmes. "If I should quit, I would die." It has been wisely said that Plato dreamed of such men as this when he chose scholars and philosophers, tried by the world and by age, to govern his ideal Republic...
...given a pick and shovel and told to pursue the tasks which he had so often assigned to others. Warden Snook, however, does not believe in asking unusual tasks of his guests, for, as he says himself in the official prison magazine, Good Words: "This is an ideal place for men to refit morally and physically for the battle of life," and "no man is asked or expected to work beyond his capacity or to injure himself by overdoing things. . . . Hot supper is served to every newcomer, and then a shower bath and bed for a good night...
...Dixit: "Women are trusting, confiding little animals. When a man tells a woman that he loves her, she makes it a point to believe him, no matter how many times she may already have been deceived. She believes him because she is an idealist, and being loved is an ideal condition. She believes him because she is romantic, and the state or condition of loving and being loved is a romantic one. Oh, when it is a question of imagination, women are far superior...
...particularly Napoleon?inspire this understanding scholar, lift his pen out of the commonplace. Said he last summer: "My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history. My ideal is to produce a work which shall be strictly accordant with the available documentary evidence, but shall none the less bear the imprint of an imaginative recreation...
...Chinese movement, known as Taoism was to Confucianism about what Romanticism is to Classicism. The Taoist claimed that the Chinese fell from the simple life--the ideal--into artificiality about the twenty-seventh century B.C. Man must now return to that idylic state, and few writers have ever set forth more entertainingly what may be called the Bohemian outlook upon life than Chuang...