Word: realistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since existentialism includes a large number of literary and semi-literary works, the question arises as to what literature is "existential" and what is not. Professor Earle regards Sartre's literary work as "realist" rather than existential. "For my money," he said, "Samuel Beckett is doing the most authentic existentialist writing...
...Fellini is not the statistical sort of realist who would take the average of all the girls in all the second-rate circuses in Italy, and cast the leading role as close as possible to this ideal. In fact, it is safe to say that no woman in the world is remotely like Giulietta Masina; that may be one reason her performance carries such conviction. Masina's face, though never down-rightly funny, is always comic--and usually pathetic into the bargain. Even when not made up in clown-white, it is a clown-face. It seems to be changing...
Deeming himself "an optimist, a realist, and in a sense a moralist," Pauling said, "We must not think war is going to take place. World leaders know it's impossible. It is ... incompatible with everything that is human." He continued, "I am happy that the world is forced to become a world of law and order rather than anarchy, a world of morality rather than national immorality...For the first time in history it is possible for national diplomats to be moral men, because self-interest and morality now coincide...
...been a dependable campaign contributor ($10,000 a year). Morehouse dispatched poll takers across the state to see which name rang bells, was not surprised when Three-Termer Dewey's bonged loudest. But chiming in second place and tolling louder with each sample was Nelson Rockefeller. Realist Morehouse tore up his list, began to pump for Rockefeller. Said he to a gathering of county leaders: "Either you guys support me while I pick the best candidate or you will get yourselves some chowderhead and get this election all messed...
Ideas & Principles. Philosopher Malik calls himself "an Aristotelian realist." He believes profoundly that man exists by religious faith. He is probably the only Foreign Minister who ever urged Westerners to "love" the people of the Middle East as a basis of their foreign relations. In one U.N. speech, he criticized the Communists for "the spiritual enslavement" of man but at the same time condemned the West for being "repulsively materialistic." If the "wonderful springs of the mind and the spirit in American existence" can "be tapped and mediated to the rest of the world," says Malik, a "spiritualized materialism" might...