Word: idealistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the Peace Corps you have to be an idealist, but we don't want any escapists or romantics," Edward J. Ginsburg, regional field representative of the Peace Corps, told approximately 50 prospective Corps candidates in the Lamont Forum Room yesterday afternoon...
...languid laconic cynicism of Brett and Jake and Bill Gorton; we all wish, stout hearts that we think we are, that we could argue as honestly with ourselves as Robert Jordan or the Old Man of the Sea. Heming-way's answers may be shallow and short-sighted, blindly idealist; his is not the horrifying total vision of Dostoevsky or Faulkner. But perhaps there is still a place for idealistic heroics, for the hard-fighting, well-dying fictions of a Hemingway. The answers aren't all that simple: but it helps to think...
...Students Association delegation was an eye-opener: "I saw these people in the rural areas living under the most adverse conditions while the rich in the cities lived in luxury." He will suspend his Ph.D. work at Ohio State to join the corps, but he is no Cloud Nine idealist about it: "The corps can do tremendous good, but it can be very detrimental, too, can't it, if it's not watched carefully...
Pete Seeger is an admitted idealist. He also says that he is an "incorrigible optimist." These qualities won't win grades in Government courses, nor will they win victories in international relations, but Seeger provides a cogent reminder that politics are meaningless without purpose. Idealism is not the opposite of realism. It is an essential part of realism...
Many men with natural distinction of mind-Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Whittaker Chambers and Gustav Regler -have tried to read the Marxist riddle. By what stages does the self-sacrificing zeal of the idealist recruit to Communism become converted into the coldly inhuman amorality of the full-fledged apparatus man in the party's higher echelons? What turns the Utopian dream of universal brotherhood into the nightmare reality of the police state...