Word: idealistic
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...grown accustomed to his faces: Hitler the buffoon, Hitler the madman, Hitler the monster. Memoirs of a Confidant introduces us to Hitler the misunderstood idealist whose vision of peace and prosperity was distorted by his gangster lieutenants. The author of this benign nonsense was Otto Wagener, a forgotten Nazi who served as storm trooper chief of staff and party economist until his career was derailed by Rival Hermann Göring. According to the book's editor, Yale History Professor Henry Ashby Turner Jr., Wagener was lucky to escape Göring's blood purge of June 30, 1934. He spent...
...table. I’m just not convinced they’ll have to compromise artistically at all. As for your gut-level complaint, your conviction that the deal just smacks of something foul, well that’s a real, legitimate problem. You’re an idealist, my friend. You want to believe in Indie, the idea of great music divorced from money and beyond the reach of the industry machines. It’s a nice thought for sure. But in practice, few musicians seem to want to starve. They want nice houses and cars...
...long. The movies changed. In the '50s, the screen widened to CinemaScope proportions while the audience shrank more than 50% and a panicky Hollywood pretty much abandoned small, tight character-driven dramas. But Brando didn't change. He remained an adolescent idealist, loving the art that had redeemed his incorrigible flakiness but becoming increasingly lost and miserable in this new context. The daring of this work somehow made people laugh uncomfortably. And Hollywood, which will first indulge those it intends to humble, turned against him, blaming him, sometimes unfairly, for cost overruns and box-office failures. Now self-loathing seeped...
...memoir tends to meander, but that's the result of its strange conception. Lilley's son Jeffrey initiated the project more than five years ago to learn more about his father's idealistic, superachieving brother, Frank, who committed suicide at the age of 26 while posted in Japan as a detachment commander during the U.S. military occupation. A pacifist, Frank was crushed by the destruction he saw in Japan and felt conflicted by his belief that military might was America's way forward, which he expressed to his younger brother in a good-bye letter. Frank, a world-record swimmer...
...multiple colors. His affected monocle’s tendency to fall out of his eye is an amusing running gag, and I hope intentional. Lenin (Daemon Pratt) and his wife Nadya (Lauren B. Brodsky ’06) make a well-balanced couple, with Lenin as a charismatic, harsh idealist and Nadya as an even harsher pragmatist. Cecily (Joanna N. Leeds ’04) and Gwendolen (Andrea V. Halpern ’07) are, despite their cheerfulness, among the most serious characters in the play, which they well display in a polite dialogue that turns into veiled viciousness, complete...