Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although TIME'S footnotes serve many different functions, our editors have found them an ideal device for disposing of long, dull Government reports, etc. whose gist can be given in a paragraph or two. They work hard at this kind of condensation, but occasionally the subject matter will not condense. Once, for instance, one of our National Affairs writers had to explain the game of poker in a footnote (the subject had come up on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and it was news). On his first try, the footnote turned out to be almost as long...
...Mayan tombs of Yucatán, they had harangued enthusiastic, tamale-bolting, beer-guzzling crowds. Because Miguel Alemán was backed by the big Government machine, which had more beer, his crowds were largest. But the peons genuinely approved his promises of sensible, moderate continuation of the revolutionary ideal. And local businessmen, with whom he held long, earnest round-table conferences on regional affairs, believed in his determination to forge today's great Latin dream-industrialization...
Editor Morrison argues that America's rigidly non-religious public school system is an ideal training ground for secularism. "Unlike Catholicism, the Protestant churches . . . have given to the public school their consistent and unreserved devotion. The result is that their own children have been delivered back to their churches with a mentality that is not only unintelligent about religion but relatively incapacitated even to ask the questions out of which religion arises. . . ." The remedy, says Dr. Morrison, is to teach religion as a part of the public school curriculum, like history or economics...
...free. It was worth fighting for." But Father soon changed his mind, having "no stomach for dictatorship and terror . . . even under a red flag." Victor, however, joined the Communist Party in 1929. "It seemed to me the greatest event in my life. . . . I was dedicated forever to an ideal and a cause...
...best was by red-haired Novelist Fannie Hurst, who rose majestically in a black cartwheel hat, a slinky black dress and an egg-sized, green-stoned ring. Her topic: "Politics and the Sleeping Beauty." Women, said she, "regulate their lives according to the male's ideas of the ideal of women's status ... according to a clock which does not move forward but eternally marks the hour-sex o'clock. . . ." She advised them to "gain dignity" by taking part in politics, running for Congress...