Word: idealists
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...portrait of an idealist whose good will leads to havoc, Sophie is convincing enough. But the story lacks focus because Author Godden never seems able to decide whether she considers Sophie a brave new woman, a likable goose or just a goose...
...tried to cheer him up," she said later. "He was an idealist, and his whole life was devoted to the United Nations. He thought he wasn't doing his job well. He was a perfectionist...
...brilliant architects from ten nations. The following two pages show home-grown effects achieved by six of these consultants. They all found Harrison wide-open to ideas. Says Belgium's Gaston Brunfaut cheerfully: "He is not a businessman like the rest of American architects. He is an idealist ... a kind of aristocrat in a nation of brutes and savages...
Labor's new influence inside the Administration was a reflection of an outside political reality. Harry Truman, even more than Franklin Roosevelt, alienated the conservative Democrats. Truman, no labor idealist, saw in 1948 that he most certainly would have lost the election without labor support...
...because his harsh methods are no longer needed in the thoroughly subdued country, decides to stage and then dramatically crush a phony attempt on the dictator's life. The "assassination" is to be undertaken by Perro, a police spy with a passion for intrigue, and Saverio, a bumbling idealist who dreams of Utopia and imagines Perro to be an agent of a secret revolutionary committee...