Word: idealistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press wrote stories about free love. Young Sinclair Lewis quit Yale to work there as a furnace tender for a month and proposed to Upton's blonde secretary (she turned him down). The school building burned down, and the Sinclairs joined another colony in Arden, Del., where one idealist turned up with two suitcases full of manuscripts and left with Sinclair's wife. Another, an anarchist shoemaker, insisted on discussing the physiology of sex in mixed company. Expelled by the comrades, the vengeful cobbler laid an information against the colony for violation of the Delaware Sabbath observance laws...
...frightening cook (Karolina Nystrom) who turns gravy into colored water and poisons the love-hyacinths of the young couple. But the couple is pretty anemic anyway; Maria Livanos turns delighted innocence into unappealing skittishness, and Frederick Kirchhoff pouts and jumps unreasonably about the stage, making an intelligent idealist learning the fundamentals of Strindbergism seem a mawkish yalie...
...practical idealist, beefy Danilo Dolci quit his career as an architect to come to Sicily's "triangle of hunger" in 1952. He battled hard against poverty, unemployment and disease and, in the process, has stirred Italy's conscience. "In the last two years," he says, "more than 2 billion cubic meters of water have been wasted in the sea in western Sicily alone. Figuring what the land would have been worth if it was watered, that's a loss of $160 million-while poverty continues to erode hundreds of thousands of families." At week...
Brassiere: "In America something strange has happened. A man will turn his head, or whistle, if that is his fashion, on seeing an obvious contraption, a clearly outlined steel construction under a dress or, even worse, a sweater. This is rather touching and only proves what an idealist...
Moore, Donald Babcock Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire, described existentialism as a combination of elements from the empirical and idealist traditions. Existentialism views man both as an object in the world committed to his relationship with other objects and as an intellect estranged and withdrawn from the world...