Word: idealist
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James Eads How was a stubborn idealist. He believed in the "actual, practical brotherhood of man." His family was rich. His grandfather was James Buchanan Eads, builder of the first bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis, builder of the Mississippi jetties just below New Orleans. His father was James Flintham How, vice president and general manager of the Wabash Railroad. Young How entered Meadville Theological School, Unitarian institution at Meadville, Pa. Fellow students termed him eccentric, "crazy," because he gave the poor his allowance, his possessions, everything but meagre necessities. He made his room a hermit-like cell...
...Hampden in the title role is a most saintly idealist. He plays his part thoroughly in keeping with the Browning tradition of ever marching breast foreward. He preserved the outward calm of a man who was assured of his ideals, and at the same time he avoided becoming a mere negative, white-faced ascetic. He undoubtedly gave the best performance of the evening...
Conservatism is the grand old guard that brings the radical and the idealist back to a necessary compromise with the facts. The delicate balance between these opposing forces keeps history level-keeled, mankind level-headed. In his stand on the Prohibition question as well as in his condemnation of faddism in education, Mr. Taft shows himself to be a conservative, and a conservative of mighty calibre. His attack on new educational schemes and his plea for the old scholastic methods raise the serious question as to whether the swift pace of modern affairs has not tinted modern education with superficiality...
Yancey Cravat, silver-voiced lawyer, dead shot, thespian idealist, came up from the Cimarron, from a dubious past, to decorous Wichita, Kan., captivated Wichita's belle, Sabra Venable, carried her off with him over the protests of her family to help build the new Territory of Oklahoma. They settled in Osage City (a fictitious name), where houses were scarce, water scarcer, whiskey and sudden death plentiful, a man's life worth less than a horse's. Yancey started a newspaper, made many friends, many enemies. At Osage's first church service, held in Arkansas Grafs tent-saloon, Yancey killed...
...unhappy King's brief interlude of passion with Bathsheba that lush spring when he tarried in Jerusalem although it was "the time when Kings go forth to battle." Without this tale is lost one of the most important psychological links in the evolution of David from the young idealist who befriended Jonathan into the almost fanatical writer of the imprecatory psalms -all of which are omitted. Question: Is it well to let the child think of David as always good...