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Intellectual Integrity. Grave, intelligent, industrious Editor Dabney is well liked, personally, among Richmond's banker-lawyer-merchant aristocracy. But as an editor they call him everything from a "starry-eyed idealist" to a "nigger lover." Dabney himself says: "I'd like to think that I get by with my views in circles which don't agree with me because I am credited with intellectual integrity, but that might be stretching a point...
Youthful Sebastian was far from such thoughts when he reached Florence. He had never dreamed of meeting such wicked, thrilling people. His father was a gruff leftish idealist who thought it would be immoral to buy his son evening clothes. But gorgeous Mrs. Thwale gave Sebastian a look that made his head swim, and Uncle Eustace not only promised to give him a valuable Degas drawing but evening clothes as well...
...Leopold Schwarzschild, a German Jew who once was also a German idealist and democrat. The book that gripped Winston Churchill is World in Trance, a burning, raging indictment of the Versailles era - "years of lofty dreaming and low demagogy . . . the era of the empty phrase . . . the age of complacency . . . the years of self-destruction." When the book was published in 1943, it got almost no notice. But the book and its current sequel, Primer of the Coming World (Knopf; $3), were news last week because...
...might have a little time to learn, the presidential elections were scheduled for next January. Leading candidate for the presidency: Dr. Arturo Romero, gravely wounded hero of the revolution, who has been in New York for medical treatment. Tall, good-looking, 33-year-old Dr. Romero is a gentle idealist who nevertheless makes sense. If he wins the presidency, he can thank General Menéndez, the "loyal soldier...
Meyer London, also a lawyer, a Socialist and for 30 years the "good shepherd" of the needle trades. London was "an unreconstructed idealist, one of those rare spirits whose goodness was felt by all who came in contact with him." When he veered toward liberalism, the left-wing needle trades union called him "a deserter." "This wounded his moral self-esteem," and he resigned in "disgust with the whole mess." Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the I.L.G.W.U. Born in Lithuania, Schlesinger began his U.S. life as a boy match peddler in the Chicago slums. "The really dominant emotional undertone in Schlesinger...