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...resists the temptation to slip him into the New Left cubbyhole and looks beneath the superficialities of speech and manner, Ferber comes forth as a complex, contradictory blend of the pragmatist and idealist, religionist and radical idealogue. His belief in non-violence is firm. His sense of perspective and grasp of social realities make him an exceptional even atypical, member of the New Left. If the government jails him, he just may have the entire prison organized before he leaves...
Primitive Garcia was that folkloric figure, the bright-eyed young idealist who migrates to the U.S. and turns visions into realities. In the nine months following his arrival in Kansas City, Mo., the handsome young Mexican held a steady job as a shipping clerk, be came engaged, and helped his brother put down $500 on a three-room home for themselves, their mother and their 15-year-old sister...
Publishing excerpts from a forthcoming book, Six Seconds in Dallas, the Post can hardly contain its excitement. Calling Author Josiah Thompson, 32, a philosophy teacher at Haverford College, a "warm and engaging idealist with a mind like a ripsaw," Editor Bill Emerson Jr. enthusiastically writes that the book "demolishes" the Warren Commission Report. An equally emotional editorial declares that the details amassed by Thompson "cry out for the truth to be told and for the murderers to be punished...
...Jews in every country." In place of many of the old stereotypes of the Jew emerged a bronzed and bare-chested figure somewhat larger than life: the sabra (native-born Israeli), who took that name from the fruit of the cactus that thrives in his land, a handsome, romantic idealist who furrowed his fields rather than his brow and was equally adept at digging wells for his country and graves for its enemies...
Rude Indignities. Second Lieut. Jonathan Endicott Seabury, a Bostonian idealist and Ivy League mama's boy still wet behind the diploma, is another of Fort Pillow's defenders. He "asked specifically for a colored regiment," dreaming of how he could teach Negro troops "English or history or geography" and monitor the happy spirituals that he fancied they would sing around their fires. He is ill prepared for the reality he encounters: dirty, sly, half-slaves whom he must train to fire fieldpieces without live ammunition. Thus he hides the gradual erosion of his soul by secretly rehearsing...