Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry F. Helmholz of the Mayo Clinic reported experiments showing that ketonic bodies in the blood, such as acetone, diacetic acid and beta-oxybutyric acid, will cure such infections if generated in sufficient quantities. Best diet for stimulating ketone production is high in fat, low in proteins and sugar. Ideal fat-protein-sugar proportion...
...meetings, collect dues, wear Nazi uniforms and sometimes drill in turnhallen; members of the League of Friends of the New Germany pledge: "I do not belong to any secret organization of any kind [Freemasons, etc.]. I am of Aryan descent, free of Jewish or colored racial traces"; their political ideal "is organically conceived and consequently the very antithesis of liberal Democratic ideas. Believing in the authority of leadership . . . we advocate a state of truly sovereign authority which dominates all the forces of the nation...
...When one thinks back over the countless manifestations of Mr. Toscanini's art as a conductor that we in this country have been privileged to experience, one recalls none that did not leave in the mind a deepening conviction that he represents, with a peculiar completeness, the ideal of the great interpreter. . . . He has proved to us. by repeated demonstration, that the supreme artist must depend for his spiritual sustenance upon elements no less rare than simplicity and selflessness and faith. He has brought closer to us the greatness of exalted and imperishable things...
Poets may sing of the beauties of Harvard Yard, romanticists may see only the ideal that lies therein, but Freshmen asked to write descriptions of the Yard in Spring will still stumble on the threshold of hypocrisy...
Because her singing has such abundant feeling New Yorkers have wondered if she would not make an ideal Isolde, but Lotte Lehmann knows her limitations, says she would be exhausted before the first act was over. She is more conceited about her horseback riding and her writing than about her singing. Traveling from Buffalo to Havana lately she wrote 3,000 words describing her reaction to the country, the Cuban excitement over new President Carlos Mendieta. Her piece was published in the New York Staats-Zeitung...