Word: ideale
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...Ibsen takeoff; historical drama of various sorts; the Russian theatre (Old Style) full of knouts and beautiful Nihilists and (New Style) one of those realistic things in which all the characters suffer from acute hydrophobia and pass their time poisoning each other in underground lodgings; an ideal scenario for the modern movie of uplift that grips poor old marriage right by the neck; The Raft?the kind of interlude that is sandwiched in for 15 minutes between the dances at a revue; so they...
...known chiefly as a writer of business stories, which you will remember in The Saturday Evening Post and elsewhere. His one other novel, Khaki, appearing at the close of the War, was badly timed and made little impression. Mr. Podd is the story of a millionaire who starts an ideal Government on an island all his own. Naturally, one's first question to Mr. Tilden is: "Mr. Podd is Henry Ford?" To which he replies: "Mr. Podd is not a caricature of Ford, though the Peace Ship escapade had a lot to do with my writing the story. No?...
...their fanaticism carry them into the lunatic fringe. It is a rap, if you wish, at various so-called new thought movements; but, primarily, it was, for me, a technical problem. I tried to take the island that has been literary property for years, the island with its ideal Government, and give it a modern twist. I haven't even tried to be particularly original. I have simply tried to amuse...
...steamroller. For the past six months rumors have been current that Mussolini, by restoring Catholic education in the public schools, had bought Vatican support for the destruction of Don Sturzo's Party. Recently, a group of young "Black" (Ultra-Catholic) nobles m Rome endorsed Fascismo's "radiant ideal." Now the bidder hand smites and silences the little priest as he breathes defiance of the black-shirted Fascisti, who have "full powers" and the desire to make Italy safe for Fascismo, after these powers expire, by an "electoral reform" that gives the strongest minority a two-thirds majority...
...kodaks as he goes, has written two best-sellers on the subject, apparently, of what most people are. But Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter, a woman who writes on the theory that " the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began," holds an audience of 45,000,000 men, women and children by telling them what they certainly are not but (presumably) would like...