Word: realism
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...Instead of blaming the decidedly mild reaction of the majority of Americans contacted in your Harris poll on patriotism, battle wisdom, callousness or barbarism, why not consider realism...
...Clouds in a Gale. The play is Williams' most ambitious departure from realism; it also makes enormous imaginative demands on the director. In 1953, when Camino Real was first presented, Williams indicated the scope of those demands in his preface: "My desire was to give audiences my own sense of something wild and unrestricted that ran like water in the mountains, or clouds changing shape in a gale, or the continually dissolving and transforming images of a dream...
...Soviets did step in," said one very concerned ranking Yugoslav foreign service officer, "Yugoslavia would be fighting for her life. We all need hard-headed realism to survive around here." No matter what the nature of student discontent, the government does protect the precarious existence of their country...
...last check to student revolt may be that same sense of "hard-headed realism." The youth and wider population know the Soviet Union has often considered neutralizing Yugoslavia. Their country was not very far from Hungary in 1956. The attack on Cze-hoslovakia further heightened their awareness and military preparedness. Student leaders understand that excessively violent and successful demonstrations may provide sufficient excuse for invasion...
...hope appears to balance, blindfold and invisible, upon a shaky raft. Something of that sort, surely, is implied by the accumulation of incidents in Bruegel's Dark Day. But there is realism in it too. That foreground bank of earth, where the peasants work, somehow seems much earthier than any other in world...