Word: idealist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan, Idealist: "In the face of a climate of falsehood and misinformation, we have promised the world a season of truth--the truth of our great civilized ideas; individual liberty, representative government, the rule of law under...
...Reagan's grand design will crumble under the weight of its internal contradictions, the president responds by calling these condemnations "wild charges" and warning his public not to "be fooled by those who proclaim that spending cuts will deprive the elderly, the needy and the helpless." Here the purblind Idealist in Reagan overpowers the Realist. Who will be deprived by the programs of this Man of Action if not the elderly, the needy and the helpless? Ronald Reagan, nice guy, manages to assuage fears about the facts...
...need to unearth attractive alternatives and co-ordinate criticisms of Reaganomics and Reaganism grows more urgent each day. Congress cannot be co-opted into "this new partnership." Otherwise, the Ronald Reagan who is part Libertarian, part Man of Action, part Realist, part Idealist--and wholly pernicious--will carry the day, with disastrous consequences...
...surprise of many Westerners who knew him well in the past, Rakowski has become an ardent defender of the repression that began on Dec. 13. Is he a patriot who truly believes the crackdown will save his country from chaos? An idealist turned pragmatist who hopes to preserve some of the reforms won before the declaration of martial law? Or is he just an opportunist enjoying his place at the fulcrum of power? Those who know him well agree upon only one point: Rakowski is a survivor...
...evoke the fervor and spiritual elevation of German art in the '20s-Nolde, Beckmann, Kirchner, Macke. If only it could! What we get, it turns out, is more art about art about art, another small room in the mirror-lined flophouse of late modernity. This sort of idealist regression seems either contrived or inept, and sometimes both. It mimics deep feeling, but in an oblique and often perfunctory...