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...that was not the whole of it. On the night of his 70th birthday he picked up his pen: "One learns from time an amiable latitude with regard to beliefs and tastes. Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. . . . Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. . . . There rises a mystic spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole...
...William Beveridge is slim, with longish white hair combed over a domed forehead. His eyes are china blue, his face pink, with deep humor incisions on either side of his wry mouth. Britons know him as an idealist who has never belonged to a political party in his life. He believes firmly in State planning, for which, says he, suitable political machinery should be provided...
Basically, said Nehru, the Indian crisis is the result of Europe's and America's concept of Asia. "What has astounded me," said Idealist Nehru, "is the total inability of the English-speaking peoples to think of the new world-situation in terms of realism-realism being more than military realism. It is political, psychological, economic realism. . . . Their concept of us is that of a mass people fallen low, a backward people who must be lifted out from the depths by good works...
...issues and men it does not falsify, seldom takes sides. If it turns Wilson (Richard Gaines) into something of a hero for what he tried to do, it never for a second palliates what he was or why he failed. Its Wilson is an obstinate, opinionated, frozen-faced idealist who trampled on his friends, spat on his enemies, and so recoiled from "politicians" that he never had a glimmer of how to cope with them...
...Saki's short stories, written in World War I, concerns an idealist named Harvey Bope who followed a peace-council suggestion, bought his nephews toys representing municipal buildings, Economist John Stuart Mill, other greats of civil life. A half-hour later he found that the boys had punched holes in the buildings for imaginary cannon, had dyed John Stuart Mill to make him look like a French marshal. Said saddened Harvey Bope: "The experiment has failed...