Word: idealized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feeble, artless fable would have had a hard time finding a publisher. But in Soviet Russia its publication evoked a thunderstorm. Pravda blasted: "Reeks of cheap pacifism*. . . both false and harmful. 'Peace on earth, good will to men,' our planet has not yet arrived at this ideal. Of course, man needs bread, but man also needs gunpowder...
Whitehead once defined the ideal university professor as "an ignorant man thinking." He possessed the great teacher's greatest gift: nobody ever asked him a foolish question. His philosophy students at Harvard gladly took the calculated risk that Professor Whitehead had demanded-honors or a flunk; no "gentleman...
Based on definite educational needs and not on a vague democratic ideal, the report should gain wide support. Yet opposition to some of the Commission's proposals has already cropped up, and more will arise, if determined action follows the report. Federal aid to state institutions has long been a red flag to professional supporters of states' rights, especially in the South, which needs aid most. Also, four members of the Commission have dissented from the majority which condemned the paralyzing policy of racial segregation in southern colleges. Added to these stumbling-blocks of blind localism and prejudice...
...There is a faint but sure drive in things towards excellence which deserves to be encouraged, nursed, supported. We are civilized to the degree that we refuse to allow this bias forward excellence to be blocked by force or quieted by a dogmatic supposition that the richness of the ideal has already been exhausted...
...guess of a native. This week, in the New York Times maga zine, Barbara Ward, foreign editor of London's Economist, who had made two trips to the U.S. in 1947, wrote: "I believe that the American people-the only people in the world who thought of an ideal first and then built a state around it-will prove in the long run happier, freer, and more creative when they carry that ideal of a free society out into the world, than if they sit at home to hug it to themselves. ... I suspect that Americans will find initiative...