Word: realist
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...very big man indeed." As for Wells' opponents, Henry James is charged with literary dictatorship and George Bernard Shaw with "Stalinism." And yet the author's praise is not entirely fulsome. Prophetic fiction owes its very existence to Wells. He was, as Joseph Conrad wrote, a "realist of the fantastic." In The World Set Free, he predicted the atom bomb; in The Island of Dr. Moreau, organ transplants; in The War of the Worlds, laser beams. Wells also produced a vast body of nonfiction, capped by The Outline of History, an almost hysterically optimistic attempt to trace mankind...
Darman bristles at the suggestion that he is an ambitious mercenary who works for Reagan only to be at the center of power. "Basically, I'm committed to public service," he contends. "I am a long-term idealist and a short-term realist." He says that he supports the Reagan revolution as "an important corrective" to stop America from drifting too far from a workable free-market economy. "If I had to go home too many nights and tell my self that what I am doing is not right, I could not continue doing this...
PAUL NEWMAN'S FIRST FORAY into directing. Harry and Son, presents a series of excruciatingly mangled human relationships. At times touching, at times insightful, and generally well put together, the movie is rather like watching a show of hyper-realist depictions of dirty laundry, done from all angles. It is difficult to say whether Newman intended the movie to be as jarring as it is or whether some of its irony and brutality is merely "romance" that simply did not come...
Lured back to Harvard in 1981, Suleiman taught literary theory and a year-long course on 20th century French fiction. The latter, French 132a, "The Realist Mode," and French 132b. "The Experimental Mode," are highly praised by students. According to class members. Suleiman graded and wrote comments on all 60 students' papers, and took the trouble to learn everyone's name. "She is extremely friendly--very approachable," says one student, Elizabeth E. Porter...
Even in the volatile Mideast, Eban asserts, the realist approach has brought about a modicum of progress. The shuttle diplomacy of Henry Kissinger and later the Camp David accords are examples of he incomplete but crucial progress towards peace that one should expect in that region. Eban remains optimistic about the future of peace in the Mideast as long as the U.S. remains committed to bringing the rival sides together. The Soviet Union, lacking any influence with Israel, will serve as little else in the area than as an arms supplier...