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Word: idealistic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...partially upholstered chair of modern design, a chair so typical of the New World where the ideal of utilitarianism and comfort in a piece of furniture is but one manifestation of a nation full of ideals. . . . Its occupant reflects its attributes. For his is the expression of the idealist, the poet of politics with head high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 3, 1944 | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...attacked him for reducing history to the level of the human belly he has said, in effect: "See here, I called my book an economic interpretation. I have never believed that history is solely a matter of economics, for there can be ecological, juridical, libertarian, moral, religious, philosophical and idealist interpretations. What is the harm in knowing how much real estate George Washington possessed? And why not admit that Robert Morris was an iron manufacturer and a West Indian trader? If we know these facts, and others like them, we can begin to understand the animus of Jacksonian, Populist, Bryanite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter-Day Beard | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Best known of the arrested pastors is 45-year-old Kaj Munk, rector of Vedersoe in West Jutland. He is not only famed for his preaching ("like a rain of sparks from a lightning rod") but is also Denmark's No. 1 playwright (Cant, An Idealist, The Word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ready for Martyrdom | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...story concerns a handsome U.S. oil salesman, working the Far East for all it is worth, and a beautiful young American teacher, a hard-headed idealist in lipstick and raincoat. These two meet in the shell-screech and Kleiglight of Paramount's Chinese war. They help the Chinese, they love, and he dies. In depicting these events, several Paramount writers have had their characters speak out in such terms as: "Women just know things like that" (intuition); "It's the funniest feeling-I wish I could tell you what it's like" (love); "I am afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 3, 1943 | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...Brave. Elisabet herself never did anything but charge, always prematurely. If she was not brave it is because that virtue cannot be ascribed to anyone who has never suspected the existence of fear. She was tall, milk-fleshed, redhaired, chokingly beautiful. She was-she thought-an intense idealist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deep in the Heart | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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