Word: realist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whyte is a realist. Accepting neither a vision of the future characterized by junky, chaotic growth nor a clean, green Utopia, he calmly predicts a much more likely middle course of high-density living, where the land is used more intensively and ingeniously than at present. He has no patience with grandiose answers. Year 2000 plans? "They vault over the messy present and near future" and justify themselves with unreliable statistical projections of past trends. As for self-contained "new towns," they start with the assumption that old cities are a lost cause-despite the fact that people continue...
Until the 20th century came along, few communities of a few thousand men could have lived so foul a life as did the first white men in Sydney. By Keneally's fictional talent, all is made vivid as fresh blood; the reader is spared the statistical compilations of realist fiction. Yet, we learn in the course of this cruel narrative that a sentence of death by torture (500 lashes of the cat-o'-ninetails amounted to just that) could be handed out by a kangaroo court of Marine officers as casually as a parking fine would be imposed...
...magazine, The Realist, made its name ten years ago (didn't know it was going that long did you?) as a scurrilous irreverent underground rag. In its latest issue though, Paul Krassner, the organization's guiding light, has turned to the more elevated purpose of spreading the hippies good word. The diggers, that nimble group of modern-day saints, were allowed to share their thing with those outside--40,000 copies worth...
...read The Realist. It is necessary and important to know that there are other potentialities and possibilities from those one tends to automatically veer towards, and even if one were to not rush out to set up a free community one could perhaps be moved in the mystical manner of the diggers. It is difficult to curb the fluttering feeling induced by phrase-segments like, "Free Time! Free Time? What was time before it was bought...
...least history," mused Depression-era Realist Thomas Hart Benton, 79. On hand to receive an honorary degree at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, Benton made a beeline for the old boardroom to inspect his wall-to-wall mural, Contemporary America. The crusty Missourian allowed that the 1930 painting reflected a nation entranced but not yet enslaved by technology. "Look at that train!" he said proudly, pointing out a black smoke-belching locomotive. "The machines of that day really had something for an artist. They weren't afraid to exhibit their power. Today's machines enclose...