Word: idealists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wofford's strong commitment to his ideals are refreshing in an age of flip-flops, empty promises and fence sitting. But Wofford claims that he chafes under the "idealist" label...
...idealist," Wofford says. "The nature of an ideal is that you don't achieve it in this world. I believe in following ideas where they lead, and they may lead into disappointment. I'm realistic about that...
...Perot anyway? (He uses his full name Henry Ross Perot only to sign checks and never ever the first initial H.) Is he simply what he purports to be: the ultimate straight arrow, the billionaire who never lusted after money, a self-effacing idealist uncontaminated by personal ambition, a brilliant problem solver who never ducked a challenge and a patriotic outsider untouched by the muck of political horse trading? Or is there, as critics claim, a darker side to Perot: thin-skinned, self-righteous, unwilling to compromise and potentially authoritarian? Does Perot, in short, have the right stuff...
...temperament, outlook and career trajectory of an angry outsider. For one thing, he writes these days for Rolling Stone, a publication rarely confused with, say, the New Republic. Greider's stance also sets him apart from both Establishment toadies and partisan true believers, for he is a jaded idealist almost as disgusted with tepid reformers as he is with the hoard-the-wealth excesses of the Reagan and Bush administrations...
...Modernism was not only a vehicle for political protest or idealist reverie. It also became, for the first time, chic: it entered the salons and diffused through the decorative arts, especially in France. And it turned pompier, as in the morbid and overblown paintings of society artist Tamara de Lempicka. The birth of Art Deco is one of the themes of this show -- designers' homages to larger avant-garde ideas: a Cubist table lamp, for instance, or "skyscraper" furniture...