Word: idealist
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...young idealist, radical, or what-have-you really seeks to have his leanings expressed in government, he has no better opportunity than in this election. As a door-to-door campaigner, as a driver of voters and motorcades, as a poll-judge and leaflet distributor, the student can at last make idea meet action. It is also, by the way, a chance for the effect and scholarly to encounter the inert and proletarian. If the campaign efforts of a doorbell-ringer or a pamphlet-strewer seem meager, at least there is always the "value of the experience...
...love the Lord and do His works." After prep school (Choate) came Princeton. To the list of heroes that included Lincoln. Great-grandfather Fell and Grandfather Stevenson Adlai added a new one: Princetonian Woodrow Wilson, whom he had met in 1912. Of all the figures in the Democratic pantheon, Idealist Woodrow Wilson is still Stevenson's personal favorite...
...national welfare to be pounced upon at home and gambled abroad? How long, O how long will Republican roustabouts engage in a sideshow scramble for power and privilege?"* He dedicated the Democratic cause to the Greater Glory of God, invoked shades of Woodrow Wilson ("that great humanitarian and idealist") and Franklin Roosevelt ("He sat there in his wheelchair taller than his critics could stand"), called upon Americans to "rise up as one man and smite down those money-changers who have invaded and violated the people's temple of justice...
...dependence on the West and established himself as a hero in the Arab world. But it was a triumph that had a price: it put his dealings with the U.S. on a basis that. was sometimes not far from blackmail, and as a result removed some of his idealist sheen in U.S. eyes...
Justice for Negroes is hard to come by in Alabama though, and a solution for the problem defies everyone but the cloistered idealist. Battle lines are drawn, and only sensitive hands can avoid pulling the hair trigger. Many doubt that Alabama's governor, James E. "Big Jim" Folsom, has the required delicacy. Nonetheless, the Governor has taken a step which is in itself encouraging. By calling for a biracial commission to study race relations throughout the state, Folsom has provided a means for sane communication between Negro and white leaders. Lack of communication is a fundamental cause of misunderstanding...