Word: idealist
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...refusing to judge liberalism in terms of the ideas it espouses and inscribes in its constitutions, and in demanding that these ideas be compared to the prevailing relations in a liberal state, Marx is providing... a formula for the concrete study of society which cannot be refuted, by idealist arguments... To understand and penetrate a society one has to penetrate its basic structure to the human bond upon which it is built...
...Young idealist" is just a euphemism for destructive terrorist. They openly breach the law and then seek the sanctuary of our courts when brought to trial. We must take off the gloves and deal with this destructive element of our society; apparently, this is the only effective means of combating its anarchistic actions. In reality, the revolutionaries are the pigs that wallow in the mire of destructive tactics bent upon the overthrow of our society...
Unabashed Idealist. A graduate with highest honors of Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Amsterdam remains an unabashed idealist, bent on righting every legal wrong possible during his 16-to 20-hour working day. After clerking for Justice Felix Frankfurter and serving a year as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia, he began teaching criminal law at Pennsylvania while bouncing from police court to Supreme Court in defense of civil rights workers. While still in his 20s, he distinguished himself as a legal scholar with a steady flow of law review articles...
...Idealist. Rarely is Casals personally revealing. He does offer praise for Martita, his youthful present wife, married in 1957. "She is the marvel of my world, and each day I find some new wonder in her." It is only in the second half of Joys and Sorrows that the reader begins to glimpse Casals the idealist, who used his artistic prestige to protest political injustices. Early in life he rejected socialism: "Full of illusions about changing society and man," he decided. "How is man to be changed when he is full of selfishness and cynicism, when aggression is part...
...Janice Bernstein is a disillusioned idealist. "People like myself lived in a dream world that we could have a good, integrated neighborhood," she says. "Now I have to drive my boy to a movie he's walked to all his life. It's wrong to lump them all together. My black neighbors on the street are very nice. Everyone's out with a broom. They want us to stay, but it's heartbreaking because we're going to lose each other. You can't force integration down people's throats, because it hasn...