Word: idealistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Best Man. In a 1960 political convention, a ruthless opportunist and a hopeless idealist gnaw at each other's vitals while the audience tries to decide just who in actual political life most closely resembles Playwright Gore Vidal's characters...
...Cornell-and-Stanford-trained philosopher, Kimpton took over a campus intellectually stirred by the sweeping changes of restless Idealist Robert Maynard Hutchins. College courses of broad generalization had buried traditional academic details. It fell to Kimpton to attend to details: an alarming drop in undergraduate enrollment because other schools feared Chicago's experimentalism; seedy living conditions because of an ugly, sprawling slum; a $1,400,000 deficit...
...management's power to legislate wages, hours and working conditions, but they have done all their fighting on ground chosen by management. U.S. unionism has none of the militancy of a "labor movement," usually fights for a few immediate benefits rather than basic, longterm social changes. "What idealist can be challenged now by the 'plight' of workers struggling to secure an increase in pay so that they may purchase a color television set, a better car, a more up-to-date kitchen appliance...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). An original drama tells the story of a political idealist who comes to power and is turned into a machine boss. Color...