Word: idealistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backward look, so he can 'do good.' The world is full-and the Peace Corps will be-of people who want to 'do good' and have not the slightest idea how. This young man knows how. He is that curious and very rare blend of idealist-operator...
...could reply again, expressing incredulity that an existentialist can in the name of an idealist for Communism as it presently exists, but perhaps it is better to leave Sartre and Walter with the last word. If you have ninety-five cents, Walter, start with the Odajnyk paperback and work your way through the . If you don't, let an old washy liberal friend lend...
...years of solemnity, one strip provided an antidote of sophisticated wit, and all the modern humor strips are in its debt. George Herriman's Krazy Kat, which ran from 1910 until its creator's death in 1944, rarely strayed from the established routine: Krazy, a thwarted idealist like Charlie Brown, loves the mouse Ignatz, but Ignatz is so incensed at this unnatural love from a cat that he hurls a brick at her; whereupon he is carted off to jail by the guardian of law and order, Offissa Pupp. Herriman injected so much poetry into his guileless strip...
...Norman Thomas is no longer the radical on the street corner, because of the distinct progress with which he credits the United States or because of a new relationship he has found with the two-party system, he has remained an idealist of the first order. Severely critical of American action in South Vietnam, Thomas calls upon President Johnson to "say to the world: We've got to have peace." If the President would turn his displayed eloquence in this direction, according to Thomas, it would be tremendously effective. Once having rid the world of war, the nation could lead...
Scores of writers have by now testified to the peculiar sense of helplessness that life under Communism brings to the thinking idealist. Some are the muffled voices that come out of the chill fog of post-Stalinist "thaws," others angry protests of those driven to refuge in the West. Few have been more bitterly outspoken or better qualified to speak than Rumanian Novelist Petru Dumitriu, 40. Before he defected, Dumitriu's novels were widely read in Eastern Europe; he had been loaded with decorations and had risen to be editor of the country's most important literary magazine...