Word: idealist
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SOUTH AFRICA: Death of an Idealist...
...transformation. Her nationality was not significant to the teenagers who knifed her repeatedly in the head: her skin color was reason enough. But her murder was another indication that the violent, sometimes anti-white rhetoric adopted by some political groups is finding expression in action. The death of an idealist is not the death of idealism, but it sent a chilly message to those who hope that good intentions are a universal language...
Bysshe (Christopher Shea) and Byron (Jonathan Rigby) meet for the first time in the summer of 1816. Emigres to Switzerland, they seek an escape from "the turgid cesspool" of England. Still a young idealist, Bysshe is slightly in awe of the older, cynical Lord Byron, already world-weary at the age of 28. Bysshe believes he can transform the world with words. But his growing disillusionment with this possibility torments...
...idealism. His amphibious forays into Latin America were designed, he said, to foster "constitutional liberty." And his rationale for bringing the U.S. into World War I was that "the world must be made safe for democracy." Criticized for being too Wilsonian, he replied, "Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I'm an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world...
Jefferson the idealist won the hearts of journalists forever by declaring that he "should not hesitate for the moment" to defend right of newspapers over the right of government...