Word: idealistic
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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...
...other article I found far more troubling. In the profile of Anthony Romano by Spencer Hsu, Anthony is portrayed as a nice guy, but an ineffective leader and a naive idealist. It is ironic indeed that the most laudable parts of his character could have been twisted in such an unfair fashion...
Anthony is certainly an idealist, but he is also a very effective leader. He was one of the best fundraisers the Association ever had, founded one of PBH's most solid programs (Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment), and did his best as president in the face of soul-less "pragmatists." It is almost a crime that one who devoted his life to PBH did not recieve a Stride-Rite Public Service Award...