Word: idealist
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Tell such a man that you are not a Darwinian, and he will usually conclude that you must be a Fundamentalist. If you do not believe in the economic interpretation of history, you must be a "mystical Tory." If you are not a materialist, you must be an idealist. "Ours is a scientific world, a literate world, saturated with -I will not say, the precise ideas of the three materialists-but surely with their deeper spirit, their faith in matter, their love of system, their abstract scientism, and their one-sided interpretation of Nature." How directly their theoretical ideas have...
Mellett's critics charge that he is an impractical idealist who runs a spy service-an accusation at least partly belied by his executive ability. His friends, vastly admiring, sometimes charge him with excessive sweet-temperedness. But at times Mellett has shown sufficient temper to scare the daylights out of those who envision him as a future Censor-in-Chief of the U. S. Press. However, it is not too likely that President Roosevelt would give him such a job. Mellett himself declares he wants no part of any "Information Ministry" and adds: "I simply don't believe...
...censor-ridden Spain of the early 1800s, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes could say in paint what few dared say in words. But, for all his bitter satire and savage realism, Goya was no reforming idealist. When Napoleon kicked out Goya's Bourbon patrons and set his own brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne, Goya quickly came to terms with the new regime, and took to painting Bonapartist officials, as he had previously painted Bourbon courtiers. When, a few years later, the Bourbons were restored. Goya changed his coat again. Roared Bourbon Ferdinand VII: "You deserve...
...months of anxious battle. The story of how he came to the Presidency is one of the weirdest in all the fantastic history of Mexican politics. Avila Camacho, a conservative soldier, was imposed on the Mexican people by the Government of Lázaro Cárdenas, a liberal idealist who picked Avila Camacho because he was his old War Minister and seemed to be the strongest man for the job. He was chosen last July 7 in an election which mocked democracy-in which both sides kept their opponents away from the ballots, in which electioneers used tear...
With the story of a fatal expedition to scale the peak by British mountaineers, the play attempts to represent the struggle of man, the idealist, against the forces of civilization...