Word: idealist
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...felt completely lost. I was at home in obscure rooms discussing the words of unknown poets, comfortable as an impractical idealist. Here, suddenly, I was surrounded by the representatives of the Real World, flashing the smiles and the golden baubles that it had to offer. One man cheerfully called: "Hey, are you interested in investment banking...
...anticipation down every woman's spine, yet maintain his job as director of the design department of an important publishing house. Erna, Jane Louise's boss, spawns a brood of children and grandchildren, wears sensible tweeds, bakes cakes, attends P.T.A. meetings, and harbours a secret crush on Sven. The idealist secretary soullessly dates her high school sweetheart, and plans a lacey wedding. The country friends lead picture-perfect robust outdoor lives...
Since his election in 1989, the self-described "pragmatic idealist" has sought to persuade Clevelanders, from the white economic elite to the poorest blacks, that they have a mutual interest in the city's prosperity. One of the first calls White made after being sworn in was to Richard Pogue, a prominent white lawyer who headed the Greater Cleveland Growth Association. "I know you didn't support me," White told Pogue. "You know you didn't support me. But I'm the only mayor you'll have for four years. You're the only growth association I'll have...
...cynic would argue that this is proof that money is more important than democracy; an idealist that we simply value voting too much to let it denigrate into another keyboard command on the computer; a realist would say Americans are simply technological morons...
First off, let me assure you that when I began my internship, I wasn't some pie-eyed idealist. I had interned in Congress before, on the House side, and I knew that there was much that was wrong with the way our government operated...