Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, there is the Harvard ideal of "The Whole Man," the well-rounded individual. If college education is cut and tailored for the prospective professional, what happens to this ideal. Will Harvard produce nothing but "specialists" and "experts?" Such questions lead to more basic ones, on the nature and responsibility of education, and the role of the university in society...
...confidence in its own vision of what a man should become. Surely the University must be little less than fanatical if it would continue to demand that students follow a program and seek an attitude which it was patently impossible to give them. And surely they must think this ideal highly desirable if they felt it was desirable to convince the vast majority of students that they were less than they ought to be because they could not attain this ideal...
...March of 1956 a faculty Committee said that ideally a professor should spend half of his time on teaching and half on advancement of learning. It noted "this ideal seems distant and unreal to many...
...phenomenon-the Utopian colony. Those at Harmony, Pa. or Oneida, N.Y. were founded by followers of deviate religious sects. These new California sectaries around Miller are no exception. Miller, who rivals Dr. Norman Vincent Peale for thin theology, is preaching a doctrine known along Madison Avenue as togetherness. "The ideal community, in a sense, would be the loose, fluid aggregation of individuals . . . It would be a God-filled community, even if none of its members believed in (a) God. It would be a paradise . . ." Prophet Miller seems to claim precedents in the Essenes, the Albigenses and the heretical underground...
Television, which likes its plots explicit, has had little success adapting the misty works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, with their subtle concerns for class cravings, lost illusions and elusive ideals. But then, neither have the stage and cinema. In adapting Fitzgerald's frail short story Winter Dreams for last week's Playhouse go over CBS, Emmy Winner James P. Cavanagh came close to Fitzgerald's mood without sticking to Fitzgerald's theme. The play retained the tender struggle of the central characters, but juggled scenes and dialogue to capture the nuances of the separate worlds that...