Word: idealized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fairly good play; in 1930 (35 years later), the London Times called it "that beautiful, harshly treated play . . ." The producer of Guy Domville was sanguine, though James, with his usual misgivings stayed away opening night. Instead, he went to the Haymarket and saw Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, which had just opened. James considered Wilde's play crude, bad, clumsy, feeble, vulgar-but it appeared to be a complete success-"and that gave me the most fearful apprehension...
...letters, too, Chekhov expresses himself most explicitly about his writing creed: "My goal is to kill two birds with one stone: to paint life in its true aspects, and to show how far this life falls short of the ideal life." A writer, he insisted, "must be as objective as a chemist ... he must know that dung-heaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones." Chekhov...
...American universities to be more than museums for the preservation and study of ancient works has increased now that young authors, many of them under the G.I. Bill, are making the campuses a center for their activities. Stanford, which has taken its responsibility seriously, presents an example as the ideal spot for the student writers. It attracts the best teachers by offering them security of tenure, the best promising novelists by giving them scholarships, and it keeps a well balanced curriculum by having an organized division of creative writing...
...academic guardian. But even more apparent is the fact that advising cannot be abandoned. The majority of undergraduates needs the stimulation and guidance which good advisors can, and in a few cases do, give. Granting the difficulty various departments face in finding men capable enough to carry out an ideal program, insufficient attention has been given to the appointment and reappointment of advisors. The departments are obligated to their students to see that the part of tuition accruing to advisors is wisely spent. This obligation requires a more detailed survey into a graduate's personality and special ability than...
Faith Undebased. The strongest element in Beatrice's mixed character was her piety. She gave allegiance to no church ("Jesus," she said, "seems to me . . . perhaps, not the most perfect embodiment of the ideal of faith"), but she loved nothing better than to pray in St. Paul's Cathedral. She, who insisted that all earthly things stand up to scientific test, abhorred the intellectual theologians who sought to "prove" the existence of God-an approach which she believed served only to "debase the purpose" of faith. Sidney never prayed; but Beatrice was certain that he, too, believed...