Word: idealist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason, and a belief in man's ability to progress. No longer could a retiring scholar take the lead; the stage was set for violent partisan action. Luther took the lead in the drama and the procession of the centuries has left Erasmus behind, a magnificent, tragic scholar and idealist who thought too much...
...their possession of certain inalienable natural rights, a theory long since discarded by political thinkers, he postulated a theory of social contract, historically null and logically full of gaping flaws, but yet inspiring in its fervent trust and faith in the basic goodness of all mankind. A visionary and idealist he was without a forerunner or a model. Above all he was a describer of beauty--a describer of the passions of the human heart and of the beauties of nature...
...Modernism," states Mr. Craig, "may be described as the literary expression . . . of dissatisfaction with the prevailing worship of material success that marked the last few years of the nineteenth century. The young idealist felt himself a spirit thrown by fate into an environment to which he did not belong. . . . Holding himself aloof from the world of reality, the poet went in pursuit of a vague and fugitive phantom of absolute beauty...
...that the U. S. has had no broad aviation policy.'' said the White House. Meantime the mails would be flown privately under Mr. Farley's new temporary contracts or under new one-year contracts authorized by Congress. New Face. President Roosevelt, as everyone knows, is an idealist. James Aloysius Farley is, as none can deny, a master politician. And master politicians should, by U. S. definition, always be watched closely, even during a New Deal and especially when they run a department of the government which dispenses large quantities of Graft's first cousins, Patronage...
...result of which a hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 6. Professor Warner emphatically stated that Howard B. Gill '13 was "the best prison administrator in the whole state of Massachusetts." He characterized Mr. Gill as an able, honest, and enthusiastic man. "Mr. Gill is an idealist, and is interested in saving the souls of men. His only fault was that he was not interested in paper work, and should have had a capable deputy to control this part of the prison's affairs...