Word: idealist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solution of the problems abroad. But if instead, as his naked words seem to indicate, Mr. Conant visualizes something more definite than this, if he is urging the United States to take a positive leadership in the peace settlement, then his position is untenable. Even the most remote idealist canot believe that a victorious Britain and France, any more than a triumphant Germany, would permit neutral America to dictate the terms upon which the second Great War is to end. This country had its chance in 1918, and had it been as interested in the peace...
...idealist as well as a practical educator, Maria Montessori believes that children have souls from the moment of birth; that they are born, not into a natural world, but into one that has been distorted by civilization; that when the secret of the child's soul is discovered the world's problems will be solved and we will have a race of self-confident, unrepressed men. Says she: "In the mind of the child we may perhaps find the key to progress, and, who knows, the beginning of a new civilization...
...Columnist Heywood ("It Seems to Me") Broun, variously described as a great idealist and a one-man slum, said he would run for Congress on the Democratic ticket in Fairfield County, Conn...
Excerpts from the sermon: "What apes we are! We copy those we hate. We fight evil with evil and become the evil that we fight. ... All this we do, thinking Jesus to be a visionary idealist. He is not. His ethic shows a more realistic insight into what is going on in this modern world than does our boasted hardheadedness...
...himself to death in a backwoods cabin in British Columbia. An awkwardly constructed, Lost Generation novel, teeming with love affairs, ineffective cures for alcoholism, neurotic athleticism, it will be read for its confessional thrills. But it will arouse little sympathy, despite the alibi that its drunken hero is an idealist "still searching for the impossible in love, still clinging to many of his childhood ecstasies and still uncalloused...