Word: realist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, James Aloysius Farley, a political realist and a shrewd observer of trends, said: "I have an uneasy feeling that the belief is spreading that people are not capable of governing themselves; that the problems today are so complex that the citizens at large must of necessity be detached from their own difficulties. The concept of the political elite is growing...
...dried, inflated pig bladders saved from the autumn slaughtering. Their one-room school was never painted-elders murmured evasively that they were waiting for the nailheads to rust. But even as a skinny, redheaded boy, Ed Crump stared at the world with the discerning eyes of a realist...
...sized Century Theater made for hearing trouble.) But they had the main thing-a real Shakespearean robustiousness. In Part I they contrived a fine balance between the historical scenes and the humorous ones, a telling contrast between that arch-romantic and exemplar of heraldic honor, Hotspur, and that arch-realist and epitome of worldly wisdom, Falstaff. And they had for this two brilliant actors...
Diametrically opposed to this is the "realist's" pattern of thought. Dogging the footsteps of Winston Churchill, he calls for an Anglo-American alliance which would freeze the balance of power within the United Nations. He calmly accepts a policy which would soon reduce the machinery of the United Nations to an instrument for imposition of Anglo-American will...
Plagued by the multiple complaints of a slowly convalescing world, retarded in attending to long run solution of its needs, partially paralyzed by hypnotic fear of the atomic bomb, buffeted by the impatience of the perfectionist and the realist alike, the United Nations has no certainty of a long and useful life. The people of the world would do well to renew the faith expressed by President Roosevelt just before his death. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our fears of today...