Word: ideally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is not to say," he warned "that colleges should submit blindly to the current social opinion of the moment. They should gear their work to the needs an ideal society. It is their job to be always critical of society as if is at present, and to teach an educated group of men and women who shall be able to judge their environment, and change it for the better...
...Anti-Poll Tax Bill, said, "Our most numerous allies in this war the colored peoples...if we lose those allies--if we lost Asia--we are likely to lose the war. The only way to keep Asia on our side is to show that we believe in the American ideal that all men are created equal...
...years to make the present and future Germans overcome the brutalities of their Nazi philosophy, and it will require the assistance of all democratic peoples to help implant in the German people, in place of their present lust for power and power politics, the idea of right and the ideal of humanity...
...them were Lieutenants Prackle and Tonder. Prackle was "a dancing-partner, a gay young man who nevertheless could scowl like the Leader, could brood like the Leader. He hated degenerate art and had destroyed several canvases with his own hands." Tonder was "a bitter poet who dreamed of perfect, ideal love of elevated young men for poor girls. ... He longed for death on the battlefield. . . . He even had his dying words ready." Only Colonel Lanser "knew what war really is in the long run. Lanser had been in Belgium and France 20 years before and he tried not to think...
...point is that these ideas didn't make a force of unity before the war. What ground have we to think they will after? Freedom of speech is a deceptive concept, not positive at all. It can be used as easily to defend the lack of an ideal as to develop the form of a way of life. Unless it is used in the second sense, it is weakening and destructive, as we have seen...