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This tribute--a bow from the great pessimist of the '90s to the great pessimist of the '70s--revisits Kissinger's 1954 doctoral dissertation and finds it "brave," a persuasive account of why realism keeps the peace better than idealism.
But many of our problems--particularly education, crime, and welfare dependence--are yielding to good sense and strength and idealism."
To those who suspect him of empty idealism, Bradley asserts a firm grasp of "reality."
Reviewing An Ideal Husband in 1895, George Bernard Shaw wrote that "the modern note is struck in Sir Robert Chiltern's assertion of the individuality and courage of his wrongdoing as against the mechanical idealism of his stupidly good wife, and in his bitter criticism of love that is only the reward of merit."
And, while the idealism and vision of a new world remained part of our mantra, its place of honor receded, as legal services became business as usual for many grantees.