Word: realist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground on their shoulders. Later, the Colonel went to his campaign headquarters, a place filled with bodyguards, publicity men, secretaries, photographers and Latin spellbinders who are set to ballyhoo for Batista all over the island. Candidate Batista has been endorsed not only by the Nationalist, Liberal, National Democratic and Realist Parties, but also by Cuba's Communists...
Bohrod is a naive realist whose paintings are mostly of common scenes around Chicago. In greens, reds, blues that are raw but seldom harsh, he paints sleazy streets of ramshackle houses, old women haggling at a fruit stand, batting practice in the Cubs' ball park (where he once sold score-cards), knobby bathers by Lake Michigan. Says he: "The shabbier parts of Chicago are what intrigue me." Less intrigued is Mrs. Frank Granger Logan ("Sanity in Art"), who stormed "It isn't worth a nickel," when a Bohrod picture of a filling station won top honors...
...this they had the aid of the Senate's No. 1 Realist, Vice President John Nance Garner. At about ball-game time each day the Senate sits he bowlegs his way through tall swing-doors to survey the chamber scene-fresh unlit cigar in hand, little Neon-blue eyes flickering, his back-hair ruffled from his after-lunch nap. Reality always enters a room with John Garner, and last week his impatience with empty gabble, his dislike of oratorical set-pieces, brought the high-flown debate down to earth...
...Parisian who studied under Foch at the Staff College, is so close a student of Napoleon's campaigns that he is supposed to remember "every order as they were given, day by day, during the Empire" (the words are attributed to Foch). But Gamelin is considerable of a realist and it is quite possible that in the next war, he would profit by the mistakes of the last...
...senior is a superman, or so he will read. He has never walked alone along the Charles, never indulged in bull sessions. He has banished the club man, the "C man" from Harvard. He is not the self-indulgent romantic his elder brother was; he is a social realist. Above all he is never indifferent and he thinks of himself only in terms of society as a whole. He is a socialist's dream-child. He bears a striking affinity to the authors of the article their hearts cross the left place...