Word: revolutionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Repentant Revolutionist. For the utterance of truth Wordsworth had a surprisingly modern experience. As a young man, he was an ardent revolutionist. The French Revolution was for him what the Russian Revolution was for a later generation. Unlike many later enthusiasts, Wordsworth was not content to applaud from the sidelines. He went to France and took a small post in the revolutionary government. In time he decided that revolutions can reform practically anything except man. So he became a philosophic conservative of the most unrepentant kind -the repentant revolutionist. For some. 50 years he sounded the emotional overtones of this...
Three generals were charged with the trucemaking: the Central Government's forceful, realistic Chang Chun, Governor of Szechwan Province and a leader of the progressive Political Science Group; the Communists' able, amiable Chou Enlai, veteran revolutionist and leader of Yenan's unity delegation in Chungking; and, sitting as consultant between the two Chinese, the U.S.'s Special Envoy George Cattlett Marshall...
...fixed idea on the importance of aviation won him few friends among the top brass. To his seniors on the quarterdeck he was a baleful-looking, bulldog-stubborn revolutionist, a man to be viewed with suspicion...
...charm the dense skepticism of his century, he is merely saying that liberalism divorced from religion becomes (in philosophy) a sterile materialism, in politics tyranny. He is explaining the genesis of a type that was common in pre-atomic civilization-the liberal who had become a revolutionist without realizing that he had ceased to be a liberal. He is explaining how one great category of liberal minds-the scientists-came to make the atom bomb and how liberal mankind came to permit them to. He is explaining how you and I come to be here in this vast emptiness with...
Democracy, Schlesinger holds, is a condition of tension, in which neither side has a permanent advantage. This theory of tension distinguishes Historian Schlesinger's from Revolutionist Karl Marx's theory of class struggle, which ends each bout in a sullen victory for one side or the other, or "in the common ruin of the contending classes...