Word: idealistic
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...ambitious young idealist comes to Washington with An Idea. A humanitarian botanist, he has developed a new kind of soil in which vegetables grow to enormous size. He merely needs a rather amusing ingredient. "I turn gold into dirt," he explains. And, not only as the central issue for a comedy, this is quite a pleasant idea...
...intentioned but hopelessly naive young American who blunders through the labyrinth of Asiatic intrigue. But Stopover: Tokyo is a brand-new Moto novel, and the change is significant: no longer need Mr. Moto patiently explain to the young American what the shooting is all about. Instead of an adventurous idealist, Hero Jack Rhyce is a trained CIA agent, as callous and professional as Moto himself. Even the villain is American-a big, handsome Communist so crafty and devious that he hoodwinks Moto into arresting Rhyce as a spy. There is an even more startling difference: in the prewar Moto stories...
...SINGLE PEBBLE, by John Mersey. Novelist Hersey's best fiction performance to date; a short, graceful story of what happened when a practical U.S. idealist ran head on into ancient Chi nese superstition and stubbornness on the Yangtze River three decades...
...QUIET AMERICAN, by Graham Greene. Novelist Greene's expedition to wartime Indo-China, showing him as skillful as ever at playing fictional charades with good and evil. His U.S. idealist, born out of Greene's pathological anti-Americanism, comes off only a little worse than his morally bankrupt Englishman, but the book's importance lies in the fact that many Europeans share Greene's phobia...
...believe your views on the Middle East to be unrealistic and even naive. The intervention in the canal could have been handled better, but surely the petrol rationing that is taking place here and in Europe should convince even the most starry-eyed idealist that this waterway will be vital to Europe for at least the next ten years. It can never remain at the mercy of Nasser or any other purely national figure...