Word: idealist
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...Economic Man I don't see how I can resist. But as an idealist, I can't capitulate. I guess I'll just fight this fringe business as long as possible, and then retire to my small room in L-entry. But enough of this--I must be going." He swept up his coat in a hawklike motion...
...workers' strike of 1913, Red Roses bears all the marks of his later, less realistic writing. The themes are the expected ones, but the orchestration is more mystical and ornate, the form more vagrant and diffuse. Though pivoting on a strike and an O'Casey-like young idealist (Kevin McCarthy) who is killed in it, the events, far from displaying any clear dramatic line, are never really dramatized at all. Garrulous minor characters outshine those involved in action, Dublin overshadows individual Dubliners, speech passes into song, movement into ballet. The tone, reflected in Howard Bay's graphic...
...Kennedy. Idealist Ford flinches at Kennedy's plans to raise a defense fund, but, after all, what counts most is the acquittal of an innocent boy. Moreover, the defense is already hotly surrounded by a nationwide wave of antagonism stirred up by race baiters and hatemongers...
...must stretch from his hatred of inequality to a recognition that much of the opposition to Negro equality is just as honestly felt as his own convictions. ("Some of my best friends are Dixiecrats -but they're honest Dixiecrats.") He must stretch all the way from an idealist's demand for nothing less than justice ("On the racial issue, you can't be a little bit wrong any more than you can be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead") to a practical lawyer's acceptance of what he can get when he knows...
...Malraux was concerned with man's greatness, not with the "masses," however oppressed. "I don't like mankind," said one of his characters gloomily. "I don't even like the poor for whom, after all, I am going to fight." As an idealist, he was from the first at odds with the professional Communists. When Trotsky complained that his individualistic heroes needed "a good dose of Marxism," Malraux bristled, retorted that he was not concerned with collective action, but with the tragic men caught up in the stress of revolution...