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...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...
...Minter is not quite the idealist her rhetoric would make her out to be. The casual, almost carefree smile Minter shows the outside world belies a deeper sense of realism about the potential for effecting social reform in 20th Century America, whether on college campuses or in the inner city. Minter holds few illusions about the ability of either her or others to make a difference individually; she expects little in the way of quick, easy change...
...solidarity against aggression," reflect the American obsession with legality. Principle 3, "reduced and controlled arsenals," reflects the interests of a commercial power, dependent on peaceful world trade, that is eager to reduce its military spending. Bush's last principle, "just treatment of all peoples," comes out of the idealist tradition with, like the first three, a legalistic tinge...