Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swiss Alps this week, on the slopes of the highest (6,000 feet) major valley in Europe, the snow lay five feet deep. It was dry and powdery on top, packed solid beneath, ideal for skiing. Above towered the two mountain giants, Languard and Julier, up to their waists in dark green firs. On a terrace, its streets white-carpeted with snow, lay the famed resort town of St. Moritz, a chockablock jumble of low, square houses and great, ugly, expensive hotels. Villagers, doing their day's marketing, dodged visiting skiers in the streets. Crowded little St. Moritz...
...Girl. Sonja, ten times world's champion, was not very popular around Ottawa, after a visit in 1932 (as an amateur) when she demanded, but did not get, $2,000 expense money for herself, papa, mama, trainer, maid, dog and parrot. She was never Barbara Ann's ideal, but she represented her objective. At eleven, Barbara Ann took one big step toward that objective-by becoming junior champion of Canada. Two years later, in September 1941, Clyde Scott collapsed while watching a bridge game, and died. It almost broke his daughter's heart...
...space. Rows of houses, each one cutting off the view from the next, and always too far away from where people work. Skyscrapers are veritable prisons. They suffocate their inmates, deprive them of sun and air. A vertical city of glass and steel, open to the sun, is the ideal. Some people think I want human beings to live like bees. But how do they know whether bees are not-happier than...
Tycoon (RKO Radio) pictures the U.S. ideal of manhood as a construction engineer (John Wayne) who, like the steam shovel he strongly resembles, works all right when he is building things. But he looks absurd trying to speak English or kiss a girl. The U.S. ideal of villainy is represented in this movie as a Latin American rail magnate (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) who dresses for dinner, manages a compound sentence without stuttering, and tries to keep his lovely daughter (Laraine Day) from getting hitched to a steam shovel...
...convinced that freedom is "an ideal which can only be experienced in the recesses of the mind . . . in the silence of the heart. . . . The only way to discover absolute freedom is to become a prisoner. Yield the whole of yourself to something that will circumscribe your life. Then you'll discover freedom. Moral, spiritual, physical...