Word: idealistic
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...government. By this time Daulton was an important man in his own right, in his own eyes: he had established a lucrative trade in cocaine and heroin, living high on the profits and slick-talking his way past a judicial system as indulgent as his parents. Soon, the renegade idealist and the venture capitalist joined forces to foul up the system by selling U.S. spy satellite codes to Soviet emissaries , in Mexico City. What delicious revenge on America's bland malevolence and institutional incompetence! What an entrepreneurial scam--the ultimate frat- house prank...
Such great control. His bland face and laid-back manner rarely reveal his inner feelings. Those who know him well say Ueberroth is a fascinating paradox, an idealist with a salting of cleverness, a man of high principle who is willing to go right to the edge of scruple to reach his goals. He once described himself as both shy and ruthless. Over the years he has perfected a calculating public modesty, down-playing himself about, say, his mediocre college grades. But behind the self-deprecation is a huge ego and a steely inner toughness. Everything Ueberroth does...
...staffing problems will have to wait, Levine said. "I'm an idealist I think you should start off by making an ideal structure, and then seeing whether we can do it," he said...
Implausible as they may be, Nolte and Williams (the Forces of Good) ally against the System, with Judd Hirsch as Evil Force I and Lee Grant as Evil Force 2. Hirsch is anti-typecast as a former idealist corrupted by the System, and it hampers his performance as a villain. Hirsch reeks of integrity, even while trying to lie, cheat, and bluff his away around Williams and Nolte, though the part of head witch suits Grant very nicely...
...long. Juxtaposed with the bygone scenes of adolescence are contemporary letters to the middle-aged Danny that trickle in from his Kostelec friends. Prema, the young resistance fighter, loses his focus after the war and drifts to Australia, dying a pointless death in a hurricane. Rebecca, the idealist, ends up in a kibbutz, shattered and alone after her son is killed by a bomb in an Israeli café. Jan, the poet, remains in Czechoslovakia. Blacklisted into silence, he commits suicide. As a self-described "raconteur of cynical tales," Danny concludes that the only meaning to life is that there...