Word: realist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this excellent translation of Os Maias, a masterpiece of his maturity, demonstrates that Eça de Queiroz was an ironic realist surpassed in total achievement only by the greatest of the great 19th century novelists...
...among the dead and dying at the Battle of Champagne in 1915, he lost his belief that man could ever know the essence of his being. Nietzsche's proclamation that "God is dead" tolled like a bell in his mind. "I changed from an idealist to a tragic realist," he said...
...Great, But Good" [Oct. 8], which refutes the impression cast by a lot of Great Society legislation that the U.S. is decaying. Nobody knows better than TIME that as Ben Wattenberg points out, "In American history, the evidence suggests that it is the optimist who has been the realist...
...need to attack them vigorously. No amount of legislation will root out racial prejudice or inspire the excellence that is dismayingly absent from many aspects of American life. Nonetheless, as Author Wattenberg points out, "in American history, the evidence suggests that it is the optimist who has been the realist." At least, this side of the Great Society, Americans do not have to be ashamed to count their blessings...
Morgenthau, as a "realist" thinker concerned with America's security, would agree that the United States must oppose Communist threats at certain places and under certain conditions. His disagreement with the "realists" in Washington-say, with McGeorge Bundy-derives from his differential view of the Vietnamese situation and from his different hierarchy of values in the realm of foreign affairs. Thus Bundy apparently rates the American national interest in South Vietnam as relatively high, while Morgenthau sees it as relatively low. But even more important, Bundy and Morgenthau disagree on the cost, as determined by values, of sending thousands...