Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long does he think it will take, by this retrograde movement, this reverse of evolution, for civilization to reach the ideal existence of the cave man, or better still, the hairy...
...call would herald in a new age." Yet, thought Donato, had a new age come to the world with Christ's coming? Was there more love and understanding? Was there less worldliness? Christ could not be the Messiah, Donato told himself. The Messiah must be an ideal not yet attained. Donato decided to become...
...editors blinked at his definition of news: "No news is often the best news. . . . The Enterprise is not above reporting that 'Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Harriman stayed home over the weekend.' This satisfies many of the requirements of the ideal news item, even if no other newspaper [knows] it. It gets Ken's name in the paper, informs his neighbors what he is doing, and entices the attention of people who never heard of him, if only to make them comment that this is one hell of a newspaper...
What makes an editorial job on the weekly so desperate, said Maloney, is "the glum fact of the New Yorker's perfection; because perfection, in the mind of Harold Ross, is not a goal or an ideal, but something that belongs to him, like his watch or his hat." In 22 years, this has enormously complicated the once casual synthesis of the magazine: "Ross is no longer content with a profile; he requests also a family history, bank reference, social security number, urinalysis, catalogue of household possessions, names of all living relatives, business connections, political affiliations, as well...
...cube bowls ($4.98). Some of the bowls have close-fitting caps which, upon slight pressure, create a partial vacuum, form an airtight container. All of them can be squeezed to form a spout which disappears when the bowl is set down. A Massachusetts insane asylum found Tupperware an almost ideal replacement for its noisy, easily battered aluminum cups and plates; patients could damage Tupperware only by persistent chewing...