Word: realism
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...from the type of economics which deems human values either too vague and subjective to be adopted as goals, or as being automatically realized through the successful pursuit of wealth and power. Small is Beautiful is both a polemic against and a prescription for replacing this type of "crackpot realism...
...Western standards, this is hardly more than good-natured ribbing. Given current Soviet conditions, Voinovich is a heretic who is not sufficiently serious about one of the leading heroes of socialist realism-the Red Army. Inspiring war novels, after all, provide the Soviets with some of their favorite reading. Voinovich not only understands this official objection but impishly uses his critics to further his heresy. "Couldn't the author have taken a military hero from real life, a tall, well-built, disciplined, crack student of military and political theory?" he writes early in the novel. "I could have...
Rather we−like all other nations in history−must now conduct diplomacy with subtlety, flexibility, persistence and imagination. We must fuse our great national assets of idealism and realism, our moral convictions and our pragmatic bent. We can no longer impose our own solutions; yet our action or inaction will influence events, often decisively. We cannot banish power from international affairs, but we can use our vast power wisely and firmly to deter aggression and encourage restraint and negotiation. We can help construct a wider community of interest among all nations. We must continue to stand for freedom...
...realizes that Norma, his Fantasy-Eve, will always distract him yet admits at last to himself that other worlds "like the ones orbiting in the daily sports pages" attract him equally. Norma's final goodbye is couched in her old Viennese accent--sincerity proves harsh, good-humored cynicism masks realism once more: "Vell, zee Revolution calls, you know...
...made Ireland's Abbey Theatre world-renowned (not only as a center of culture, but as the focus of controversy). The Plough and the Stars was chosen for the Abbey's bicentennial tour in New York and Boston because it was definitive in developing the "Abbey style" of Irish realism: perfect brogues, meticulous blocking, sublime melodrama...