Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...custom, his parents had married him to a village girl when he was 14. He discarded the girl back home, with whom he had never lived, and married Yang K'ai-hui, a professor's daughter and an active Communist. Friends celebrated their marriage as an "ideal romance." She bore him two sons, both of whom were educated in Moscow. Yang was executed by Hunan's anti-Communist Governor Ho Chien...
...played by British Actor Leo Genn (recently seen in Mourning Becomes Electra and memorable as the sardonic Lord Constable of France in Henry V), Dr. Kik is the ideal psychoanalyst-patient, handsome, experienced and endowed with a deep, beautiful voice as intricately gentle as a surgeon's hands. He is the perfect Freudian knight and the picture's real hero...
...light turned out by an ordinary 100 watt bulb ten feet away; lighting engineers have set 15 foot-candles as rock-bottom for any room in which people will be reading or writing. And there is not a big lecture room in the College that tops ten. Under ideal conditions, Emerson D varies from six to eight, Mallinckrodt MB-9 just reaches nine, and the handsome new indierctly-lit lecture room in the Institute of Geographical Exploration registers little higher. The New Lecture Hall comes through with six-foot candles, accepted as the optimum light-level for gymnasium lockers...
...soon afterward, the critics lambasted the institution for presenting such a bourgeois item as Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. Then came an official bawling out. Today the repertory is stocked with ten plays by Soviet dramatists...
...graduate center," according to President Conant, "will bring the University close to its ideal of a community of scholars and students sharing their ideas and experiences informally in the classroom...