Word: realist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the President appointed Carmi Alderman* Thompson, veteran politician and big iron and coal man of Ohio, to go to the Philippines as his personal representative on a mission of investigation. In the White House announcement nothing was said about prospective Philippine independence. The realist attitude was reflected...
...advent of Mussolini is little short of miraculous. He did not promise or give advantage to any one class. He called upon and demanded of all classes that they work together for the good of the nation. He is neither a demagog nor a reactionary. He is a patriotic realist...
...wrong, for Haldane Macfall can write. He has an extraordinarily observant eye and an equally effective pen. He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it. He has a mental balance that is quite above pessimism-a rare attribute in a realist. Neither moralist nor sentimentalist, he writes a thoroughly first rate novel simply by being an incisive observer with an ironic humor and a measurable amount of sympathy...
...shrewd editor's talent for making nothing sound like something, said he: "If the facts warrant, I am willing to be as reactionary as the Czar of Russia on Monday, or as radical as Leon Trotzky on Tuesday. ... I feel the only person worth bothering about is a Realist. [Conservatism, liberalism and radicalism are] three air-tight and often thought-tight compartments. . . . We park ourselves behind these barricades and begin to approach things in terms of emotion...
Author Gorky, Russian realist, feels beneath the surface of an episode for its obscure, its real causes. To him, reason is no sinew flexing and supporting life, but a scalpel for cutting into it. That he makes his most satisfactory discoveries among abnormal patients is not surprising in a man who experimented on himself as a boy by lying beneath freight trains...