That air of respectability was carefully concocted by her mother. My grandmother, LaRue, had come of age in the 1950s, in the decade of idealistic fever that burned after World War II.
And, students will feel more comfortable making the irresponsible decision to go tens of thousands of dollars in debt to major in impractical or idealistic subjects if they know their loans will be forgiven.
And the cadre of the League should always keep their quality, and to show their loyalty to the Party and also to show their spirit of the great lofty ideal, and also to stay strong and also be positive.
And, for me, the suffering has been worth it because I think I could change things, and I'm still idealistic, and I'm still optimistic, and people tell me, " Why are you still idealistic and optimistic? "
I halted. How could I explain my idealism to this man? How could I put into speech a something felt, a something like the strains of music heard in sleep, a something that convinced yet transcended utterance?
The first is an unruly, subsidy-fed explosion of wind, solar and biomass power, a “strange mixture of idealism and greed, ” as one energy boss calls it.
On the surface, they're not so different from previous generations of idealistic teenagers who set out to change the world, only to find it is not so easy.