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Parkhurst is an idealist and a crusader, and thinks of himself as fighting the good fight for truckers around the country. He is an extension of the trucking mystique: tough, independent, but thoroughly American in his role as publisher and labor leader...
When I was in high school, people sometimes called me an idealist. I would answer that the real idealists were those who believed that the world could continue to groan onward without completely falling apart, that I was actually a realist because I saw change as imperative. I also answered by using an old worn-out quote from Albert Camus--"Perhaps we cannot feed all the starving children in the world. But we can surely feed some of them. If you will not help us do this, who will help us do this?" And for all the quote's disarming...
Stone's record even belies somewhat his self-appelation as "counterrevolutionary," probably in the eyes of both radicals and bureaucrats. It can be no comfort to Nixon that Stone is an idealist, not a soldier; and in an age of ubiquitous deception, Stone has proven that truth is radical...
Crouse comes off as a wayward idealist here, stopping at the typewriters of various press leaders to ask why they don't mutiny. They inevitably pause, deliver mealy-mouthed excuses, then resume work. Crouse stresses that again it is only from the outside that one might foil the Ziegler screen...
...scenes and situations, from academic Cambridge to the black underbelly of Roxbury (where Ken teaches awhile) to an orgy involving the apple pickers, a family Civil War sword and a death by drowning. Under the black comic claptrap in Black Conceit is a deeply felt, uncompromising book about an idealist's disappointment that human nature does not prove perfectible, that human decency, liberally applied, cannot suspend the law of the jungle. "We go on making choices, after the original helplessness," Coffin reflects, "and ultimately it becomes our fault...