Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artificial technique to help him examine his academic problems. As a frame of mind, however, it is less likely to be the result of experience or disillusionment than it is the position taken by one who wants to give the the impression that he has been around. It is ideal for the student who is less anxious to be right than he is to avoid being wrong, whose desire for truth subserves his dread of being thought foolish. In his efforts to elude being caught in a ridiculous posture, he avoids positive commitment if possible. Religous zeal and patriotism...
...cheesemen picked Perry precisely because he sees the world as filled with nice guys, and makes audiences feel the same way. The clean-cut Como appeal runs from toddlers to dodderers. It is no surprise that convent TV sets glow for Como, that he was rated America's ideal husband in a poll of 20-year-old girls, or that three years ago he made Saturday night the loneliest night in the week for brilliant but irascible Jackie Gleason. Says a Kraftman: "Out in Arkansas, he's the type they want on a family program. Nobody else could...
Such a view, however, does not consider the non-academic factors of college education. A community of scholars is a worthy ideal for a university, but not necessarily for an undergraduate body. The four undergraduate years are supposed to provide a "liberal education," not a mere preview of professional, graduate scholasticism, and the notion of diversity lies at the basis of this goal of liberal education. With the press of applicants constantly growing, Harvard could easily fill its classes in a few years from the members of any relatively homogeneous group, whether such a group consist of those who come...
...University of Illinois, Associate Professor Earl R. Leng has developed a dwarf corn that he hopes will some day end farmers' worries from windstorm damage. The short stalk is also ideal for automated pickers. By crossing his dwarf corn with teosinte, a Mexican grass, he has also developed a stalk with 20 small ears all along the stalk. If he can increase the size of the ears, the corn of 1965 may well resemble a hat tree...
...added that while the two may not be "card-carrying Communists," they are fully committed to the communist ideal...