Word: idealist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unhappy King's brief interlude of passion with Bathsheba that lush spring when he tarried in Jerusalem although it was "the time when Kings go forth to battle." Without this tale is lost one of the most important psychological links in the evolution of David from the young idealist who befriended Jonathan into the almost fanatical writer of the imprecatory psalms -all of which are omitted. Question: Is it well to let the child think of David as always good...
...lawyer-President personally drafted the law when he was Minister of Interior in the cabinet of bull-necked Plutarco Elias Calles, also a two-fisted idealist (TIME, Nov. 19, 1923, et seq.). Little was heard of it then. Printed on 160 single-spaced pages the Fortes Gil Labor Code is too complex for one Mexican in 1,000 to grasp. Basically it aims to displace the present ill-coordinated State labor laws with a sweeping Federal system of drastic potency. Passage of the necessary Constitutional amendment last week gives the President a free hand to railroad enactment...
...KING WHO WAS A KING-H. G. Wells-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). To Herbert George Wells, as to many another social idealist, man's future means a great deal. But Wells is prophet as well as wisher. Years ago, so he claims, he took a joyride in an aeroplane and prophesied Lindbergh. "This book" he declares, with some slight inaccuracy, "is the same sort of thing. . . . Can form, story and music be brought together to present the conditions and issues of the abolition of war in a beautiful, vigorous and moving work of art, which will be well within...
...love with her-this girl who lived in Greenwich Village with wide innocent eyes. One, a publicity man and therefore a cynic, realized that she was "a charming woman without the faintest conception of her own limitations-damned dangerous." The other, an engineer and therefore an idealist, thought her "like a spearhead of beauty in a difficult world." Certainly she made it difficult for him: ran off with him in spite of, or because of, his wife; then left him in the lurch because, she discovered it was the cynic she "really loved." The idealist snatched this opportunity to make...
Brother Lammot?tall and serious?his hair neatly parted on one side?peering through spectacles?is in many ways a slim edition of massive brother Pierre. But they differ in temperament. Lammot is a worker, a studious realist, where Pierre is a creative planner, an expansive idealist. Like Pierre's, his laugh is quiet, almost silent, but unlike Pierre's his interests are few and confined. Pierre crusades, but not Lammot. Pierre has conservatories; Lammot, conservatism...