Word: idealist
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...from his paper while riding a New York subway and saw the words "Brooklyn Rapid Transit." He reversed the initials; thus TRB. The BRT has vanished; Strout, far from it. While his collected essays do not form a cohesive whole, they shine individually with the glimmer of a cynical idealist. He returns every week, brandishing only his intelligence and wit. But with those tools TRB has earned his royal...
...last week following a stroke in West Germany, he had virtually no influence among students and his once much discussed books-Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man-were little read. Noted a member of his West German publishing house: "He died bitter, disillusioned with mankind but still an idealist...
Born to an upper-class Jewish family in Berlin, Marcuse became a confirmed Marxist while studying at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. In the German idealist tradition, he had abnormally high expectations for mankind and came to the conclusion that only revolution could realize them. He was a founder of the leftist Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. With the rise of Hitler, Marcuse and other members of the institute fled to the U.S., where they had a continuing impact on academic opinion...
...novel's action, is a buccaneer abroad and a fond family man at home. Yet Blackett is such a compleat capitalist that he is willing to trade his daughter like a commodity in order to pump up the profits. His opposite is young Matthew Webb, a bumbling idealist who despises colonialism but offers no better alternative than a vague new brotherhood...
...sons and daughters feel the urge to serve. "Duty, honor, country and a sense of obligation to serye the Nation and mankind are very much a part of the ethic of today's youth," says Korean war veteran Rep. Paul J. McCloskey (R-Cal.). He insists the "young idealist" hwo opposed Vietnam "were the same type of individuals who volunteered to serve in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1939, before the United States entered the war against Germany...