Word: realist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shriver, if nothing else, is a realist. He shuddered when he heard himself described as "Mr. Clean." He did not dream up the Peace Corps. Indeed, when the time came in the winter of 1961 for John Kennedy to make good on a 1960 campaign promise to create the corps, he tapped his brother-in-law-and Shriver dodged. "But he told me," says Shriver, "that everyone in Washington seemed to think that the Peace Corps was going to be the biggest fiasco in history, and it would be much easier to fire a relative than a friend...
...show, in effect, plunged the U.S. realist tradition temporarily in the shadows. It was not until the 1950s, when the powerful wave of abstraction reached its peak, that the U.S. asserted itself strongly on the international stage. But if the show shattered Ashcan hopes of becoming the dominating force in U.S. art, those who called the U.S. provincial were obviously passing judgment too soon. From the older generation of Americans in the show, Albert Ryder's paintings live on to haunt posterity. Of those who were in their middle years, Walt Kuhn went on to do first-rate work...
Philip Nini, proprietor of Nini's Corner at Massachusetts Ave. and Brattle St., said the man bought a copy of The Realist Saturday morning. He reappeared in the afternoon, showed Nini a badge, and ordered him to stop selling copies of the magazine, "because it was obscene," Nini said...
...Realist styles itself "the fire hydrant of the underdog," and runs satiric articles on current affairs. The issue in question contained an article by George Lincoln Rockwell, commander of the American Nazi Party, a number of jokes and cartoons, many directed against Roman Catholics, and some off-color humor...
Paul Kressner, editor of the magazine, denied that it was obscene and said he had never had any difficulties with censorship before. The Realist, published monthly in Greenwich Village, has a circulation...