Word: idealistic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Miss Bird plays the aristocratic idealist who refuses to admit that the monarchy cannot be brought back with delicacy. When she finds that she is deceived by Roulette, her heart is broken, but she nevertheless sends him off to fight for her cause, and on hearing of his death, forgives...
...place in philosophy, it may be said, I think, that he was the greatest representative in America, and, with the exception of F. H. Bradley, of Oxford, the greatest representative on the later nineteenth century of the idealistic tradition. As the greatest modern idealist, he differed from others in his respect for science and in his mastery of the fundamentals of the sciences. Of the almost captious contempt which other idealists showed for the work of the sciences, he had none. There was room in his mind for all the contributions of materialism and science...
...Jopling has the war in mind, but he is an idealist...
...hasty sportsman rather than a sport-loving sportsman,--to win first and consider the means afterwards. It is not any warp in his moral nature which makes him so, but rather a somewhat thoughtless impetuosity bred of what is known as "college spirit." A few call Dean Briggs an idealist, and mean it as a criticism, never considering that a little idealism is what college athletics need above all else. Dean Briggs is an idealist, and as such his attitude toward sport in general acts as a corrective of undergraduate impetuosity. As Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Improve the river-front! Never, since some wild Idealist suggested making Harvard Square a business centre, has such a radical suggestion been heard, Conceal that triumph of architecture, the boiler-factory, in a spinney of Japanese hemlocks! Cover those pebbly, tin-canned shores, where laps the limpid Charles, with clumps of alligator pear trees and groo-groo palms! Yet the scheme has its advantages. The exiled Freshman, in his far-off lonely habitation, may feel that he has at least sympathy, if he can watch from his window the weeping willows drooping over the water. The lone oarsman can compromise...