Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pound looked beyond the legal mechanism--beyond the maze of particular rules and forms in the workings of the judicial system--to the ideal element in the law and the raison d'etre of a legal order among men. What he discovered startled the juridical world of the early twentieth century. Law was not an end in itself for the sake of stability alone; nor was it a mere ordering of individual wills in the interplay of vicious competitive forces. The job of law was to harmonize conflicting interests in society through the force of an organized political structure...
Director Jerome T. Kilty '50 leaned back in his last-row seat in the auditorium, and as Shaw's ideal Saint Joan passionately pleaded with the inquisitors, he closed his eyes and said of Weisgal, "No woman has ever thrilled me so. Ahhhh...
...unholy hour of five fifteen yesterday morning, the State Department wrote finis to a China experiment devoted to the noble ideal that men would rather talk than shoot out their differences. It speaks highly of General Marshall that he was able to withstand as much disappointment and betrayal as he did and still keep on working for peace. When he left Shanghai with no agreement in sight it was almost a certainty that the withdrawal of the peace teams was in sight. The surprise is not that the Marines are coming home, but that they are coming home so soon...
...more than any other man to make it a prize. Working a little above and behind the area of spot news, he aimed at "discovering American policy." To that kind of job he brought sound scholarship, a facile tongue, a pen that turned out discursive and thoughtful prose, ideal for London's "Thunderer." He became friendly, but never too friendly, with men who made U.S. history, a subject he knew well enough to assess them against...
...Grease Paint. Like millions of boys who wanted to be cartoonists when they'grew up, Milt Caniff never missed a day of Mutt & Jeff or Polly and Her Pals. But the Chicago Tribune's prize old political crosshatcher, John T. McCutcheon, was his ideal. Milt's, father took him west in 1916 and nine-year-old Milton worked for a short time as a child extra in two-reel movies. At twelve he created (for family circulation) his first cartoon, something known as Si Plug...