Word: realist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theoretically, Sidney Hillman's job. But the President is a political realist...
...Welcome. It was under the shrewd hazel-grey eyes of an able, forthright realist, Brazil's Foreign Minister and the Conference's administrator, Oswaldo Aranha, that the delegates began assembling in Rio. In fine fettle, Aranha snapped orders to painters, rushed completion of a new five-unit air-conditioning system, supervised the refurbishing of crimson satin wall coverings and rich Aubusson rugs in the Itamaraty Palace, Brazil's Foreign Office. He conferred daily with President Vargas, with taut, ascetic U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery and with a stream of other diplomats, some of whom left the Palace with...
When Stirling Hayden and his body arrived in Hollywood, many skeptics said that the mere fact that he was a nautical fellow, and very good-looking, did not necessarily imply that he would make a good actor. These skeptics were answered by the realists, who said that the mere fact that he might not be a good actor did not necessarily imply that he would be a failure in Hollywood. Now both of these arguments were based on rational grounds, but the realist school of thought failed to take one factor into consideration--just how bad Mr. Hayden's acting...
Until the Japs bombed Hawaii, the most any realist hoped for from last week's Conference on the Cooperation of Interdenominational Agencies was the adoption of alternative Plan A, a pious proposal that the eight great agencies of U.S. Protestantism should work together more closely. After the bombing, the 200 delegates at Atlantic City put through proposal C with a whoop calling for unification of all the agencies into a new "Council of the Churches of Christ in North America...
...this sort of thought we can and must arrive at a unified pattern of war aims. It is based on the two great intellectual advances we have made in the last twenty years: the realist approach to history, which has taught us that things are often not what they seem, and the realist school of literature (Hemingway, Dos Passos, Remarque) which has developed the idea that the real motive of all ideologies and governments is the furthering of the individual in his simple and personal life. These are great advances toward the solution of the industrial problem that is racking...