Word: realist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks Alexander Dubček has been the object of a secret struggle within the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia. The ultraconservative faction, led by Deputy Party Chief Lubomir Strougal, has wanted to put him on trial for treason. But Boss Gustav Husák, the Moscow-supported "realist" who last April replaced Dubček as party leader, has sought to prevent a return to the terror practices that gripped Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and early '60s. Last week, after a meeting of the ruling eleven-man Presidium in Prague, party officials announced that some time after...
Though the art forms are present, art, for the most part, is not. The general failure of the literature is akin to the failure of socialist realist literature. Art and ideology are not incompatible when either the art is crafty enough to slip the dogma in unobtrusively, or the ideology is sufficiently original and interesting to justify being dramatized. But in Aphra. the writing doesn't shine, and most of the ideas just aren...
NATHAN: Being a political realist, if I were in the Nixon Administration. I would be doing much more in terms of leverage-like selling off materials from the strategic stockpiles. Tariffs also present another possibility. Instead of moving toward the protective direction, which we seem to be doing, one might move a little bit in the opposite direction...
...artist who could resist the temptation to see things as they ought to be, rather than as they are, and that's Tom Eakins." Walt Whit man was one of the few people who had anything good to say about the cold-eyed and ruthlessly honest Philadelphia realist. Aside from the poet, whom Ea kins portrayed in 1888 as a twinkling old sage, few people could stand having their character laid bare with the visceral objectivity that Eakins brought to portraiture. He used his brush like a surgeon's scalpel, exposing old wounds, concealed ambitions, ill manners...
Even Paul Krassner, editor of the black-comic book the Realist, makes his broadside sound like a grudging salute: "Wayne is one of the floats from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade...