Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...becoming assistant president, with a clear hand to smooth ruffled party tempers, to compromise and persuade in Congress, to figure out where the Administration had got off track with public opinion. If the New Deal party could be cured of its sickness through adroit poulticing, Jimmy Byrnes was the ideal physician...
Since Mormon history is a book in itself, Stegner has concentrated mainly on the civilization and the society that was built up on the banks of the Great Salt Lake. Polygamy played an unimportant part, contrary to popular opinion. The great ideal was a brotherhood and a sharing of worldly goods, built into a simple, ascetically Christian, agricultural life. This was the greatest strength of the Mormon colony. This is what attracted people from Europe and even Hawaii to walk in groups of hundreds and thousands across the country, pushing their few worldly possessions ahead of them in wheelbarrows...
Horrible grimaces and irrepressible feet may yet take Negro Pianist Dorothy Donegan places where her ten amazing fingers would not get her so fast. Wrote Down Beat, the blase semimonthly gospel of some 47,000 U.S. jazz fans: "She is, to us, the ideal in piano stylings. . . . We beckon to Hazel Scott to learn how the classics are swung. We invite Bob Zurke, Jess Stacy, Joe Sullivan, Billy Kyle, all of them, to see phenomenal piano work...
Debussy: Iberia (Pittsburgh Symphony, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). Debussy's moon-drenched impressionist landscape of Spain (one (of his finest orchestral works) has yet to get an ideal recording. The Pittsburghers lack the New York Philharmonic's (Barbirolli; Victor) finish, but Conductor Reiner paints Debussy's highlights more subtly...
...point of fact, Bridges will not be "an Armistice Day speaker." He is delivering his address on November 11 simply because that day is most convenient. His subject, "Labor and the War," is no more contrary to American ideals and principles than President Conant's address on "The Classless Society" (a thoroughly Communistic ideal...