Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relief in the story, and in this certainly lies much of its oppressiveness. "Our tale begins in darkness and ends in darkness," Prokosch begins, and he pursues the sordid, the unhealthy, and the cruel throughout the book with what appears to be a devotion to some mistaken ideal of honesty. The only other explanation of his over-frequent descriptions of torture and disease would be an intent to please or attract readers through their sheer sadism...
...Torture of Decision. But when should he announce? To some, the Democratic National Committee's $100-a-plate dinner at Chicago last week, where he was scheduled to speak, seemed to be an ideal platform. But Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler, a Stevenson man, included New York's Averell Harriman and Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver on the program for the sake of party peace...
This winter another student exhibition is being planned of paintings produced in fine arts classes. An ideal location has been found in the large show room in Robinson Hall, the scene of displays last year by Stein and Calder. The reappearance of student exhibits is gratifying. This year's course display, however, should be expanded to include selected works from all student painters at the University. In such an enlarged exhibit the works from fine arts classes could and most probably ought to be shown separately from other paintings. But a University-wide showing would help to reorganize the activity...
...Although our ideal goal is one copy of required books for each student who must do the reading, unless we get extra money we'll use a reserve books system similar to Lamont's," Ottemiller stated. He said that while he was at Brown that school's library had successfully used the "one book per man" plan until the Second World War put an end to the project...
Renovations were badly needed in the old freshman dorms anyway, so administrators combined "deferred maintenance" with the partitioning of large rooms into small ones to reach the ideal of one desk per room...