Word: idealistic
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Goose and Gander I am admittedly a novice in political matters, and an idealist. But I find it difficult to understand why it is not right for milk producers to use their money to buy influence with the President, but it is all right for labor unions to use their money to buy influence with Congressmen...
Antigone brings death upon herself as the only acceptable solution to life; only in its rejection can she be true to herself and her fierce idealism. The essential conflict burns in the confrontration between Antigone and her uncle Creon, the king, also an idealist but committed to a realistic acceptance of life's dilemmas. Just as he acknowledges yet still embraces the mediocrity of life, he offers to ignore Antigone's offense. So far is he from Antigone's youthful idealism that he fails at first to understand that her crime is motivated by nothing less than an overwhelming desire...
Allan Arbus is overly dramatic and gives the weakest performance in the production as the writer-director. He's supposed to be a starry-eyed idealist but looks more like a high-strung neurotic, and he fails to convey the seriousness of his own dramatic message...
...also inherited her brains, energy and abiding interest in good works. At Yale (class of '09) and Oxford, he shone as a scholar, debater, idealist. In 1913 Moses started work for New York's reform movement. Within six years he had worked out an ambitious plan to reorder the chaos of overlapping state administration-essentially by cutting 187 agencies down into 16 workable new departments. Governor Al Smith pushed it through the Albany legislature...
...show's real appeal, however, lies in its depiction of an idealist trying as an individual to take on large-scale institutional corruption. This country has watched for months as various investigators have inched their way towards the truth about the Nixon administration; one wonders if it would have been any easier if there were any Serpicos in the White House...