Word: idealistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Minter is not quite the idealist her rhetoric would make her out to be. The casual, almost carefree smile Minter shows the outside world belies a deeper sense of realism about the potential for effecting social reform in 20th Century America, whether on college campuses or in the inner city. Minter holds few illusions about the ability of either her or others to make a difference individually; she expects little in the way of quick, easy change...
...solidarity against aggression," reflect the American obsession with legality. Principle 3, "reduced and controlled arsenals," reflects the interests of a commercial power, dependent on peaceful world trade, that is eager to reduce its military spending. Bush's last principle, "just treatment of all peoples," comes out of the idealist tradition with, like the first three, a legalistic tinge...
Perhaps I am an idealist, but it seems to me that sex is intimate enough of an activity that it should be fairly obvious as to whether both people want to be there. When people start conjecturing, start imagining scenes that would implicate a man as a date rapist, that's when the trouble starts. I once had a non-resident tutor in my house ask me "What about if a woman says a very quiet, muffled 'no' that the man doesn't hear, and then she goes along with him? Is that rape? What about if she doesn...
Alas, poor Cyrano. For decades he has been little more than a rumor of antique flourishes, known to the mass American audience mainly as the source of Steve Martin's genial little comedy Roxanne. Swordsman and poet, idealist and unrequited lover, born rebel as well as natural nobleman, the hero of Edmond Rostand's great romantic play is not, face it, a figure calculated to inspire a nonromantic age. One does not suppose, for example, that he figures very largely in George Bush's inner life. Or, for that matter, Jesse Jackson...
Like his CBS boss Edward R. Murrow, Polk is a model for the American journalist as brooding idealist. Not satisfied with accepting government handouts, he tried to report the Greek civil war from behind the communist lines. Such enterprise disturbed the Royalists. Either they did not understand the role of an independent press or they understood it too well...