Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moral in the highest sense, no matter what evil it may depict. In that sense, nothing truly beautiful could ever be called bad, nothing bad could ever be called beautiful. Esthetics and ethics would be the same. But that, Kerr admits, could probably come to pass only in an ideal world...
With that doleful epitaph to the Olympic ideal, the games ended. Using the system favored by U.S. sportswriters (10 points for first, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 for the subsequent places), the Soviets had won, with 722 points. Second: the U.S., with 593. Third: Australia, with 278½. (Under the European system of 7 points for first place, the score was 622½ to 497.) Melbourne's largest funeral parlor took down its "Welcome to Olympic Visitors" sign, and airline flights were so solidly booked that one desperate spectator tried to get shipped home as freight...
...Greco. Toledo was an ideal city. Saint Theresa and St. John of the Cross were fellow citizens, and their visions made the miraculous an everyday occurrence. In such a time, Toledo found it easy to understand El Greco's inner vision, which triumphed over perspective and proportion to create his own soaring, flamelike dimensions of beauty and power...
Lifson referred to frontier days as historical background for his argument, asserting that "American men yearned for a soft feminine bosom, but had to live with dogies. Yet man cannot live with calves alone. Thus began the ideal of the American Girl." He said that this ideal has been shattered, however, and that "our Babbitts have become rabbits...
Chafee said he did not advocate laws that would destroy "out long-cherished ideal of responsible states operating within a national framework," and that "chief reliance must be placed upon communities where violations of human rights are in danger of taking place...