Word: idealistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That," says Nuri in his gravelly baritone, "gave me the idea I have followed all my life-to be practical, not idealistic. My critics always want the ideal. If everything comes as you like it, what's the use of ability? This is my doctrine: never be an idealist, use what's available, don't wait till everything is perfect and miss your chance...
...seminars that sprang up, in the whole effort to cut across academic fields and search for the unity of knowledge, in the trend toward giving college students more independence and in the new interest in liberal education for adults. Last week Amherst found the old pioneer still the philosophical idealist, trying to find "the meaning and purpose of the total human scene." "Courage, beauty, truth, freedom, justice, honesty,'' he once said, "are still the original facts . . . Our modern task is to find them...
...These turn-abouts cannot be taken too seriously, however--they probably represent only a rapid calculation of a turning tide on the issue of national defense. They do not increase the likelihood of a hardy school construction program or of an adequate UIA. The hot air of the democratic idealist seems doomed to escape with a rather unseemly phfft for at least the next few years...
...study of Christian origins and beliefs as seen through the eyes of a Second Century seeker of the spiritual Grail called Damon. Damon's intellectual odyssey parallels that of Fisher's; both are somewhat cynical about Christianity, the cynicism of a person beginning as the most beliveing idealist. Fisher was raised on an Idaho farm in a very strict Mormon environment; his intellectual conflict with his religious culture can be seen in Damon's lifetime search...
...which compete with abundant sets of uninspired lines in what seems to be a race for expectability. Even love rears its precious little head to add a tired touch of creeping sentimentality. And, regrettably, the author has felt satisfied with stocking the stage with a cast of cliches: the idealist; a shabby-willed congressman who needs an issue; his smug colleague in the other Party; two excessively stupid sleuths from the FBI; a secretary who needs romance; and an asthmatic lump of sex from the botanist's home town. The only mildly refreshing character in the Capital seems...