Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to the notes of students, the Rector of the Sorbonne writes: "this generous gesture deeply moves me, and I am overjoyed to find what a high ideal of intellectual and, more simply, human solidarity, American students are creating...
...product educationally of Melrose High, M.I.T., and the Harvard Graduate School, Leonard knows the business of examinations from all points of view. The ideal proctorial attitude was expressed in a statement of his recently: "Though it doesn't happen very often, every time a fellow here cribs, we want to be sure that our system couldn't have prevented...
...hands-off policy in China) he deplored the spectator attitude of many Americans. He quoted Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Man is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to affirm the worth of an end is to create an ideal." And Marshall added: "So I say to you as earnestly as I can that the attitude of the spectator is the culminating frustration of man's nature...
Before the race, the Russians had been briefed on the peculiar French starting technique. Because undisciplined French athletes cannot be made to line up quietly, the ideal French starter is one who can surprise his runners while they are all bending down to tie shoelaces. The pudgy little starter at Le Tremblay last week was one of the best. Casually, as great globules of water dripped from his mustache, he engaged the girls in a long, rambling conversation about the weather...
...admirer of plain speaking (especially his own), Gilbert detested hypocritical modesty in women, and such "ideal" types as mild-mannered curates. Of the clergy in general he was shy and suspicious. He also disliked his fellow dramatist William Shakespeare, whose writing he considered "obscure." "What do you think of this passage?" he scornfully asked a Shakespearean enthusiast: " 'I would as lief be thrust through a quicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle.'" The enthusiast explained: "A great lover of feathered songsters, rather than disturb the little warbler, would prefer to go through a thorny hedge...