Word: ideale
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...particularly Napoleon?inspire this understanding scholar, lift his pen out of the commonplace. Said he last summer: "My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history. My ideal is to produce a work which shall be strictly accordant with the available documentary evidence, but shall none the less bear the imprint of an imaginative recreation...
...Chinese movement, known as Taoism was to Confucianism about what Romanticism is to Classicism. The Taoist claimed that the Chinese fell from the simple life--the ideal--into artificiality about the twenty-seventh century B.C. Man must now return to that idylic state, and few writers have ever set forth more entertainingly what may be called the Bohemian outlook upon life than Chuang...
...represent the genuine, clean-minded, keen young man of today in these United States. Every girl will have a candidate for this honor, but if she looks at the portrait I have done of Mr. Stone she is more likely to see more than a trace of that ideal young man whose picture she carries in her heart." The speaker was Thomas Casilear Cole, who had 35 paintings on exhibition at the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan, last week. He was particularly pleased with his "Portrait of a Typical American Young Man" and his model-Melville E. Stone III, 22, grandson...
...decay of the French monarchy and the Church in France there had come a surprising shake-up of society on an economic basis. Capital and capitalists became powerful factors in the realm, with a corresponding depression of the lower classes. Socialism as conceived by these early philosophiers was an ideal whose realization would remedy the defects of this system, and as such it has been advocated by leading reformers ever since. It remained for extremists to distort the aims and principles of the idea...
...Calvin Coolidge: "Some say that if I had not married Calvin Coolidge, I would have become the ideal dean of a women's college. But the wives of Presidents, as well as deans, must have tact. That, my friends tell one another, is my most important characteristic. Then too, as everyone knows, I love flowers, am an able gardener, play the piano, keep an accurate baseball score, knit. An enterprising researcher once announced that I am the first co-ed to be the First Lady of the Land...