Word: idealistic
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Coping with Communism in this light demands great patience and moral staying power. Theologian Niebuhr is as worried as many Western Europeans that Americans do not possess those qualities in sufficient measure. Without faith, the classic U.S. idealist is the modern man who hovers between "subjection to the 'reason' which he can find in nature and the 'reason' he can impose on nature." He is now frustrated, fearful and impatient with his first experience of a great historical struggle which he cannot control. Warns Niebuhr: "There is no simple triumph over this spirit of fear...
...Robinson's case one of the clues to what he is driving at is knowledge of what he was driven by. When Critic Barnard is not busy unraveling the poet's knottier lines, he sees Robinson pretty much the way Robinson eventually saw himself: as an "idealist" in philosophy, a traditionalist in verse form, a liberal humanist in spirit...
...before O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh-that men need illusions to survive. The Ekdal family are happy so long as Hialmar Ekdal is ignorant of his wife's past and the true paternity of his child. Ibsen's exposure of Gregers Werle, the meddling idealist who enlightens Hialmar in the name of truth, is merciless. But his portrayal of flabby, feckless, self-excusing Hialmar is hardly less...
...Yale philosophy department has all sorts-logical positivists and metaphysicians (e.g., Carl Hempel and Paul Weiss), Agnostic F.S.C. Northrop, Physicist Henry Margenau, Idealist Theodore Greene. Last week, Yale added the final diversity-a Thomist, and the only Jesuit professor at any big non-Catholic university...
Charisma, the heroine, wanted to get routinized and find a husband (Beowulf). The puzzled Durkheim kept running from the idealist to the Materialist polo muttering, "Oh, God. I mean, Oh, society." Weber, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Grendel's Mother also rushed about the stage spouting garbled political theories. They blew horns, ate bananas, and emerged from a trap door...