Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Alexander Woollcott was asked at a party to name his ambition in life. He wrote: "I would rather be a Fabbulous Monster." Fifty years later, the letters from Woollcott's acquaintances which Samuel Hopkins Adams received as he prepared to write this biography indicated that this boyhood ideal had been realized in full. The letters ranged in tone from rage to pleading...
...this utopian factory, Bogner believes that instead of pampering the worker such an ideal situation would "build an his self-respect, interest, and loyalty to his place of work. The fundamental realization of this age is that machinery in spite of their great potentialities, these and these men must be treated as human beings instead of as more machinery...
...acting head of the dominant party, M.N.R. (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario): "Land should belong to the man who works it." The crowd applauded. But in backward Bolivia some 90,000 proprietors own the land inhabited by a rural population of 2,500,000. Land reform was still a somewhat remote ideal...
Laboratoiy workers consider the hamster's laboratory qualifications practically ideal: it is even more susceptible to human diseases than the guinea pig. The gestation period is the shortest known for a mammal-15 days, 21 hours. It begins to mate by its 43rd day, bears its first litter at the age of two months. Thereafter, until the age of one year, when it stops bearing, it can deliver a litter of two to 15 young every month...
...remains that depressing journalistic tradition of comparative analysis: "the bloodiest battle of the war," "toughest fight in Marine history," etc. . . . A battle is each man's personal hell. It is fought personally, felt intimately, and death is the individual's own contribution to a not so satisfying ideal. Surely the aggregate of all that horror is no more than the sum of each man's suffering, and the total can never be measured comparatively except by the individual who fights his own war in his own few cubic feet of earth, or water, or sky. . . . (PVT.) ROBERT...