Word: idealist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Idealist" on "Bloodsuckers...
...never was, a Communist," declared Gordon Switz. "I was interested in the Soviet experiment as an idealist. My first contacts with the Soviet spy organization were in New York and in Washington. They saw how keen I was and arranged for me to go to Moscow in the guise of an aviation instructor. When I returned to America I met my wife, Marjory Tilley. She was a student at Vassar. She was only 19. We got married and she agreed to come to Europe and help...
...even the German Defense Ministry's scar-jawed observer relaxed his set vigilance and smiled when Roiderer sniffled between sobs, "I am against war. I am a pacifist. I wanted to write articles with the material in my little notebook from the pacifist philosophical viewpoint. I am an idealist. I couldn't sell my articles because American editors are so materialistic. Almost nothing of mine was accepted by anybody and in all I received just $13. I wrote not as an enemy of Germany but as an enemy...
...action of France in clinging to this last sepulchre of international action is most significant today when in Europe disillusion stalks armed with bayonets, and faith in anything except one's strong right arm marks a nation as a whimsical idealist. France's fortitude, if carried to its ultimate conclusion, will be a far greater factor in maintaining peace than appears on the surface. The old system of turning the entire country over to the military staff at the first sign of storm clouds was an enormous factor in preventing the localization of the conflict in 1914. When two mobilized...
...Between these two branches of learning a distinct cleavage has grown. Science dominates the modern world--science in the narrow sense. The business-man, unquestionably master of our civilization, is a scientist. Persons, things, actions, even philosophies must justify themselves by the standards of the market-place. "Theorist" and "idealist" have become terms of contempt...