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...compromisers, has learned to live with the facts of life without compromising too much himself. He has even learned that Kristina's virtues have it all over drawing-room talents. Most of all, Not as a Stranger is a heartwarming though crudely repetitive story of a passionate idealist whose passion is medicine. No novel ever written has contained more authentic, hard-won facts about doctors, patients, hospitals. Hypochondriacs will devour it; few of those who are not will consider its nearly 1,000 pages a waste if they stick it out. With all its literary embarrassments...
Ignazio Silone is an Italian idealist who has spent a good part of a lifetime alternating between books and politics; the constant thing about Silone is that he has always been for the persecuted against the persecutors, as Ignazio Silone saw them. In his 20s he was a Communist, hopping back & forth between Stalin's Moscow and the underground in Mussolini's Italy. By his 303 he had seen enough of both totalitarianisms; he settled down in free Switzerland, wrote his famed novels of the Italian peasantry, Fontamara and Bread and Wine. After World War II, he went...
...Oldest Profession. Ann quickly learns that Rainier, an incorrigible idealist, is about to ship for Korea to fight Communism, and that she has a redoubtable rival: "l'humanité...the last femme fatale." For though her lover bursts with poetic talk about keeping her happy, he is committed to "man's oldest profession, which is to be forever reaching for some distant goal of Justice and Liberty...
...Harvard, he found not only William James but also Idealist Josiah Royce. Hocking promptly adopted both these men as "my honored masters." In the first, he found a challenge, in the second, a response. Over the next 40 years, he gradually molded that response into an eloquent philosophy of his own, passed it on to hundreds of Harvard students. Though of formal bearing, he never lacked fire: it was the fire of a man who believed with all his heart that "to know that the world has a meaning [is] the philosophic minimum...
Newspaperman Douglas Templemore, an idealist, considers the tropis a fine chance for a test case. By killing his son (bred by artificial insemination of a female tropi), Douglas hopes to cause a riot in the realm of race relations. Is he a murderer or merely an owner of a pet, which he has "put to sleep"? If he is a murderer, he may be hanged, but the tropis (and all so-called inferior races) will gain in security and dignity by judicial affirmation that they are human; if he is not a murderer, racists may at last have legal biological...