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...bosses information on the Polaris submarine, the Strategic Air Command, and U.S. nuclear weapons, which he was able to inspect on the assembly lines. Since his arrest a year ago, WennerstrÖm, now 57, has admitted most of the charges against him, but claimed to be an "idealist" whose only motive was "to preserve the peace and power balance of the world...
...first years of marriage were full of triumphs: Wilson was reelected, the war was won, and Europe received Wilson with tumultuous enthusiasm as the idealist peacemaker who promised to end war through a new League of Nations. But the Peace Conference soon bogged down, opposition to the League of Nations built up, and Wilson grew depressed. Exhausted but stubborn, he decided to stump the country for the League. In September 1919, he started out on a grueling 27-day tour by rail of most of the states, but at Pueblo, Colo., he suffered a stroke...
...NEUROTIC. Some modern atheists are unquestionably neurotics - typically, the young idealist whose religious fervor turns into bitter anticlericalism after an unhappy experience in a seminary. Lepp has found that psychology can help cure such atheists of their emotional hostility toward religion, but will not affect their unbelief. "It is not in the psychologist's power either to give or to destroy faith," he warns. "This belongs to a metapsychical domain which the theologians call grace." Atheists by and large, he says, are not particularly neurotic...
...Zonas is a man most likely to survive, his friend Dasius is an idealist most unlikely to do so. The restless son of a Roman freedman and a Greek slave, he yearns for the dark freedom of Carthage's Africa, finds it, and loses everything. In time of war, Bryher suggests, it is advisable to make only the smallest demands upon life...
Thus, that most un-Hegelian of philosophers, William James, affords even a place in his trinity for the great German idealist. Nothing could attest more profoundly to the extraordinary eclectic potentialities of the Jamesian scheme or to its capacity to effect cultural rapprochement. But in a society where not knowing what to do or believe seems a much graver problem than not knowing how to do it, the triadic model has further importance. For James the test of a belief is its consequences for action and the test of an action, its consequences for pure experience. He starts with pure...