Word: idealistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upper slopes of U.S. society, Dos Passes got a long look at the depths as a World War I ambulance driver. He came back to a U.S. racked by social and economic change, threw himself into the defense of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Before long, like many another idealist of his generation, Dos Passos had plunged deep into the murk of Marxism. The murk slightly distorted his otherwise vivid, sprawling trilogy of 20th Century America, U.S.A., which remains his most notable contribution to U.S. writing...
Sunday's baccalaureate service in Memorial Chapel was presided over by the Reverend John H. Leamon, pastor of the First Church in Cambridge, Congegational. Subject for his talk was "The Patience of the True Idealist." Reverend Leamon warned the graduating class of the dangers of idealistic minds turning their backs upon the institutions of democracy...
...Professor Matthiessen was also an idealist in his own way, a man of deep concern about matters not touched directly by letters. Though painfully shy, he once accepted the presidency of the Teachers Union at Harvard, championed the rights of teachers whenever he thought them abused. Though never a Communist, he found himself in sympathy with many of the works of the U.S.S.R. and the Communist Party. Of Russia he wrote (From the Heart of Europe, 1948): "It knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives...
...year-old Louis Streit now proudly recalls: "He was always worrying about people who were bad off in India and other foreign places." Clarence was classified by his family as an idealist like his late mother, Emma Kirshman Streit. Her motto was: "'I can't never did do anything." Clarence believed in the motto...
...might like to reflect on one man's suggestions for salvation. In New York and London, Union Now appeared in the bookstores and Streit's idea was launched. A modest 13,-ooo books were sold in the U.S. It was all the encouragement that Streit needed. The idealist was reborn...