Word: realist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Professor Laski, Mr. Justice Holmes may be called a "legal pragmatist; legal doctrines and institutions, for him, are to be explained in terms of the convenience they represent." He is a realist. To quote Professor Laski again. "He has never spoken of law as the equivalent of justice. He has seen that, in any society, it is merely the will that has known how to get itself accepted . . . The true justification of a statute, he has somewhere written, lies 'in some help which the law brings toward reaching a social end which the governing power of the community...
...kills Mrs. Simon, the erring wife. Lawyer Simon gets renewed faith in life and no little budding interest in his faithful secretary. Actor Muni turns in an extraordinary characterization. More than 20 mummers do their best. But Counsellor-at-Law remains prolix, unsifted, the work of a painstaking realist who refuses to trade significance for well-observed irrelevancies...
...people really talked the way Authoress Roberts' country characters do, they would either be hired for an antique chorus or put in an asylum. No gramophonic realist but an artist who digs for buried treasure, Authoress Roberts makes her Kentucky farmers' speech into the kind of lyricized dialect which the late John Millington Synge dug for and found among his Aran Islanders...
Reds Waiting. Roaming Mr. Chen has been at Moscow as well as Tokyo. If Baron Shidehara welcomed last week the advent of a Chinese realist with whom he could negotiate, the Japanese Foreign Minister did not welcome a possibility that Mr. Chen may have obtained promises of Soviet backing...
...free silver" era of politics. His nominators were half a thousand discouraged Republicans, disgruntled Democrats, disgusted Socialists, Populists and Independents who gathered from 25 States. Plain, thin-pursed men with faces stamped with sun and soil, most of them were in overalls or shirt sleeves. Theirs, they needed no realist to tell them, was a hopeless gesture against the two major parties but at least it was a gesture springing from strong political convictions that U. S. economics are today sadly out of gear...