Word: idealist
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...Advancement of Science's $1,000 prize. If Professor Compton does eventually create or break up atoms, next great problem will be: How to use the energy thus released? All this exposition showed the pragmatic scientist in Professor Compton. He also took pains to show himself a Presbyterian idealist by declaring his creed: "I believe that the very existence of the amazing world of the atom points to a purposeful creation, to the idea that there is a God and an intelligent purpose back of everything. A survey of the Universe indicates that mankind is very possibly nature...
...stout faith in the workings of popular democracy and the benefits of collective action. But his newspaper experience gradually bred in him a distrust (again, like Hoover's) of so-called Public Opinion, the judgments of the Mass. As editor of the World, public ignorance was his field. As idealist, organized public intelligence was his dream. Pessimistic passages in his writing give the same impression that one gets from hearing the precise, clipped accents of his speaking voice, an impression of the intellectual aristocrat who sometimes despairs of public ignorance ever being cured, thus throwing the public's right...
...gallery, started an art school, earnestly advocated himself as Palm Springs' first mayor. Well aware of the value of publicity, Sculptor Katchamakoff flooded the U. S. press last week with photographs of his work, typed autobiographies in which he described himself as "a charming and cultured individual, an idealist, but also one of those rare beings who actually works to materialize their [sic] dreams...
...adopted Prohibition, he stopped using alcohol. He was not particularly glad to do so.* But he was going into public life, wanted a clear record, and was ready to believe that abolition of alcohol would make for social uplift. The slow arrival of that uplift has not discouraged Idealist Hoover about its ultimate arrival. The sharp swing of public sentiment away from the present law challenges his stubborn nature, for he holds mass thought in low esteem. Even his political ambition is part of this attitude, his Quaker conscience telling him he must continue in his position, cost what pain...
...Souls' Unitarian Church (whence William Howard Taft was buried). After the services the body was to be cremated and sent on to the family home at St. Louis. Only one tramp, and he but a nominal one, was there-Harry W. Johannes Jr. of Baltimore, representing the idealistic International Brotherhood Welfare Association. He would not enter the church, remained outdoors, distributing copies of The Hobo News. The only funeral eulogy was a phrase from Matthew:-"I was an hungered and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink"-spoken by the minister of All Souls...