Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lore of St. Cyr. command the smartest army in the world? Was it not based on the impregnable subterranean bastions of the Maginot Line? Furthermore, in these early days of September 1939, the Maginot Line was widely regarded, not as a defensive masterpiece alone, but also as an ideal point of departure for an invasion of Germany. Amateur strategists pointed out that France's possession of the escarpments of Alsace-Lorraine, jutting east toward Germany, made her invasion chances vastly superior to those of 1914. The democratic world waited for General Maurice Gamelin to start. Few detected any symbolic...
...gloomy statues are allowed in The Happy Cemetery-and the ban extends to representations of Christ on the cross. The Builder is impatient with portrayals of The Master as "a suffering being, of joyless visage." He is still hunting a marble Christ "who really smiles." Pursuing his ideal, Promoter Eaton once inspected 998 Christs of all sizes in Italy. None of them smiled...
...last of his Current Events lectures yesterday, Hans Kohn, professor of Government at Smith College, stated that the next century will be an American Century since the American ideal of democracy, which embodies liberty and equality, will flood the world...
...form of large nations, or federations of smaller nations, should coincide as far as possible with natural economic units. This principle is difficult to apply and must frequently be held in abeyance because it conflicts with other principles. For example, Holland normally belongs economically with Germany. The ideal would be that Holland and Germany should each remain perfectly free and completely autonomous in all internal affairs and in many international relations, but that they should form parts of the same economic unit. Cultural conditions, however, including the prejudices of the present war, may make this undesirable from the standpoint...
...Court is 1) the history of the rise & fall of the Anglo-Irish gentry, as exemplified in ten generations of Bowens; 2) the story of Novelist Bowen's passionate attachment to Bowen's Court, the square, empty, echoing 18th-Century family mansion which "like Flaubert's ideal book about nothing . . . sustains itself on itself by the inner force of its style"; 3) a bloodstained tapestry of Irish history, from Cromwell's terror to the Trouble...