Word: idealistic
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...Despite his good works, Purser is not purely an idealist. He's also a shrewd businessman. He first saw Indonesia during a 1968 honeymoon in Bali. He stayed for 12 years, starting a guide service that grew into Pacto, which, he says, "was and is the largest travel company in the Republic of Indonesia," with a staff of 500. When the government changed the law, prohibiting foreigners from owning businesses in that sector of tourism, Purser accepted a job with the U.N. Development Program and served a stint as director general of tourism in Vanuatu...
...with her praise of Franklin, a Sevres porcelain chamber pot with Franklin's cameo embossed inside. Neither the King nor his ministers were instinctive champions of America's desire, which they correctly feared might prove contagious, to cast off hereditary monarchs. But the combination of Franklin's realist and idealist appeals eventually brought France into the war on America's side, which proved critical to its victory in the Revolution. It also showed that even France, at least back then, could be charmed...
...familiar problem: How to explain that the irrational, risk-taking Hefnerian who went to bed with the girlfriend of the Mafia boss of Chicago, who routinely lied about his disastrous health and had himself dosed periodically with amphetamine cocktails was, at the same time, that self-possessed rationalist-idealist, the Apollo who demanded, on that bright morning of the age of celebrity, "Ask not what your country can do for you..."? How do the elements of John Kennedy's myth and life compose themselves into a real human being...
...salary levels do not compensate students for their sacrifices, financial and personal, of having left home and lived thousands of miles away,” says Rayd Abu-Ayyash ’01, who claims both Germany and Jordan as his home countries, “it requires an idealist, economically secure, well-connected, or a courageous optimist to return home straight after university...
...only major country that indulges in diplomatic ostracism (although most Arab states don't recognize Israel). This policy was invented, appropriately enough, by the arch-idealist Woodrow Wilson, who said that diplomatic recognition should depend on the "existence of a just government ... resting upon the consent of the governed." Wilson refused to recognize the Soviet Union in 1917. That ban was lifted in 1933, but Wilson's policy was resurrected in 1949 when the communists conquered China. America's nonrecognition of China, which lasted nearly 30 years, was an unmitigated disaster. "If we had not ostracized the Chinese, we might...