Word: realist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he was nevertheless a close second to Roosevelt indicates that throughout the country there is a body of Democrats determined to stop the New York Governor, and willing to use Smith to that end. It is difficult to believe that he, who has been called our greatest political realist, is not alive to these facts. Presumably, as a loyal Democrat, he is willing to sacrifice his own dubious chance of election to support some candidate other than Roosevelt. Viewed in that light, the Massachusetts primary is significant not because he won, but because Roosevelt lost...
William Dean Howells was the first realist. Quite different from the trenchant, sensual realism of Heminway or D. H. Lawrence. For his was, as Emerson has suggested, the harvest of the quiet eye. His novels were dull with the dull ache of life, or they held the mild amusement which enters the life of everyman. Things seem to stagnate, as in "The Chance Acquaintance" or "The Silver Wedding Journey," or they advance slowly forward with the inevitability of passing years...
...Europe's recovery. For years he has advocated our joining the League of Nations and his speech on the League at the Madison Square convention of 1924 ranks among the most eloquent efforts of modern times. His position has not changed, but he is sufficiently a realist to recognize the folly, and the constitutional impossibility, of our entering the League until a vast body of sentiment in the country approves that action. For that reason he opposes a Democratic party endorsement as a new partisan division would throw the matter back into the political bickerings of 1920. Nevertheless, exceptional opportunities...
...been said that courses are valuable, indeed necessary, because they enable the college to teach large numbers of students. Any other scheme means individual teaching, or tutoring, which is expensive and for which no college can easily obtain a sufficient number of skillful men. To this argument the realist who opposes courses would reply, first, that large numbers are not a necessary condition of the problem, for colleges can give up the ambition to be large; second, that the course as a teaching device is not the object of attack at all, but rather the course as a unit...
...work of the two men, Verrocchio the realist and Desiderio the exquisite sentimentalist, dominates the exhibition. The same Verrocchio who produced the mighty Colleoni has given us the forceful bust of Giuliano dei Medici. The sculptor has portrayed Lorenzo's brother as the victor in the great Tournament of 1475, the here of Politian's Stanze rejoicing in his youth and virile beauty. The tilt of the noble head, the pride of race stamped on the curling lips and firm-set jaw make this not only the portrait of a Medici but of the whole class of cultured despots...