Here Marshall uses his schoolmate Langston Hughes's words to pronounce his mission and his faith in the idealism of the American experiment.
This is not pie-in-the-sky idealism.
I, too, was swept up in the idealism and passion that the Bloomberg administration seemed to be bringing to public education.
It was recorded a year after the assassination of King, with anti-Vietnam protests at their height, a duplicitous president in the Whitehouse and the idealism and hope of the decade in tatters.
He talked about the early-60s, and the idealism of the generation that had seen World War II, the idealism of the generation that marched in jacket and ties, the idealism of a generation whose activism was relatively unmarked by drug use and self-indulgence.
After Cabral's assassination in 1973, Lara and Neto embodied the idealism and moral tone of the Portuguese-speaking African colonies' fight.
What made "A Tale of Love and Darkness" an event is the power with which it entwines the intimate story of an immigrant family — a lonely, depressed mother, a distant father, and their son — with the larger historical story: Europe's rejection, the frantic search for refuge among Arabs in Palestine, the idealism and the disappointments, the establishment of Israel and the war that followed.
Yes, Soviet dissidents were superb in courage and prose, but the idealism that Moyn suggests is indeed short of good scholarship and accurate history.
The institutional support which Harvard Law School offers through OPIA for students seeking public interest work has made a dramatic difference in realizing the idealism and dedication of incoming students.
However, on the other side of the ambivalence, he avoided phenomenology where the emphasis appears to be more abstract and in the tradition of idealism.
