Word: idealistic
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Lauren's publication is nothing more than a newfangled collection of buzzwords. The cover of November's premiere issue features text-art including AIDS, the Internet, Sex, Phat, Apathy, Slacker, Segregation, Lollapallooza, Beavis, Butthead, Real World, Influential, Multicultural, Promiscuous, Activists, Brady Bunch, Woodstock, Skeptical, Cynical, Bust, Boom, Driven, Idealist and Hype...
Kissinger casts Nixon as a realist, the first in the White House since Theodore Roosevelt. To support this contention, he quotes from Nixon's annual foreign policy reports, which Kissinger himself wrote. But as Kissinger admits, Nixon placed a picture of the unabashed idealist Woodrow Wilson in the Cabinet Room and repeatedly proclaimed the altruism of American policy. It amounted to a combination that Kissinger rather disparagingly calls "novel" but which seems to me quintessentially American...
Such behavior may seem surprising coming from Clinton, who campaigned as a foreign-policy idealist. As a candidate, he took a hard line on human rights, attacking George Bush's passive policies in China, Haiti and Bosnia. Voters expected to see a more interventionist foreign policy, where Clinton would use resources freed up by the end of the Cold War in the aggressive pursuit of humanitarian goals...
...hippie couple who served in Latin America as missionaries for the Children of God, River made his first impact at 16 in Stand By Me. His film roles could often be mined for flecks of autobiography. In The Mosquito Coast he played the son of a renegade idealist who sequesters his family in a Central American village. In Running On Empty he gave a beautifully judged, Oscar-nominated performance as the son of fugitive radicals trying to raise a family. And if flashbacks weren't evident, portents were. The 1991 My Own Private Idaho, for which he won the National...
...Seattle, 75% white, Norman Rice bore the double burden of incumbency and race but nonetheless swept to re-election by a 2-to-1 vote; he has convinced many residents that he is a problem-solving pragmatist whose race is irrelevant. Mayor Michael White, a self-described "pragmatic idealist," won a second term in Cleveland. Detroit's overwhelmingly black electorate chose Archer despite McPhail's charges that he is too friendly to white suburbanites...