Word: idealists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...felt completely lost. I was at home in obscure rooms discussing the words of unknown poets, comfortable as an impractical idealist. Here, suddenly, I was surrounded by the representatives of the Real World, flashing the smiles and the golden baubles that it had to offer. One man cheerfully called: "Hey, are you interested in investment banking...
...hippie couple who served in Latin America as missionaries for the Children of God, River made his first impact at 16 in Stand By Me. His film roles could often be mined for flecks of autobiography. In The Mosquito Coast he played the son of a renegade idealist who sequesters his family in a Central American village. In Running On Empty he gave a beautifully judged, Oscar-nominated performance as the son of fugitive radicals trying to raise a family. And if flashbacks weren't evident, portents were. The 1991 My Own Private Idaho, for which he won the National...
...Seattle, 75% white, Norman Rice bore the double burden of incumbency and race but nonetheless swept to re-election by a 2-to-1 vote; he has convinced many residents that he is a problem-solving pragmatist whose race is irrelevant. Mayor Michael White, a self-described "pragmatic idealist," won a second term in Cleveland. Detroit's overwhelmingly black electorate chose Archer despite McPhail's charges that he is too friendly to white suburbanites...
...anticipation down every woman's spine, yet maintain his job as director of the design department of an important publishing house. Erna, Jane Louise's boss, spawns a brood of children and grandchildren, wears sensible tweeds, bakes cakes, attends P.T.A. meetings, and harbours a secret crush on Sven. The idealist secretary soullessly dates her high school sweetheart, and plans a lacey wedding. The country friends lead picture-perfect robust outdoor lives...
Since his election in 1989, the self-described "pragmatic idealist" has sought to persuade Clevelanders, from the white economic elite to the poorest blacks, that they have a mutual interest in the city's prosperity. One of the first calls White made after being sworn in was to Richard Pogue, a prominent white lawyer who headed the Greater Cleveland Growth Association. "I know you didn't support me," White told Pogue. "You know you didn't support me. But I'm the only mayor you'll have for four years. You're the only growth association I'll have...