Word: realism
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This name-calling of "realistic" and "tenderminded" does not clarify things much. Each of us is convinced that within his own vision of the mechanics of world affairs lies that ideal combination of compassion and realism in the face of decisions of power. The first problem is to discover what the United States is actually doing. Then theoretically you can endorse one of three foreign policy alternatives: using power as the Administration is doing; ceasing to exert pressure on the internal affairs of other nations; or continuing to exert pressure but in a different direction...
...Believing that TIME shows as much courage and foresight in being consistently anti-Communist as in being consistently pro-integration, I applaud much of your realism in the Wessin y Wessin cover story. But I do feel that the inconsistencies in our foreign policy, which did so much to force us into the necessary but tragic intervention, are an essential part of the story. Bosch's downfall certainly stemmed from his incompetence, his failure to fulfill campaign promises, and his softness toward Communists; yet had we intervened then rather than now in support of a freely elected constitutional government...
...prevailing trends in espionage-crime literature today go in opposite directions. One heads toward the pure escapism of Fleming flimflam, the other never comes in from the cold of procedural realism. The current best of the two worlds...
...inevitability of some slack-off in steel-and because a growing number of economists see signs that the nation's 50-month-long expansion has finished its most buoyant ascent-Ackley and his aides are quietly trying to balance the widespread business optimism with some hard-eyed realism. Said Ackley: "We will not be led into the mistake of assuming that continuing gains at the recent rate are assured for the second half of the year." In the months ahead, Ackley feels, the automobile and steel industries cannot be counted on to supply further great gains. Any solid economic...
Dreiser's importance to the American novel lay in what seemed to be his "social realism." He imagined himself an American Zola, and set out to describe the ordinary lives of ordinary people in ordinary language. He stamped all over the parlor niceties of Victorian tradition and proclaimed in a booming voice that heroines are not often virgins heroes are not usually gentlemen. He did not necessarily punish the wicked. Indeed, in Dreiser's novels good and evil do not exist-there is only unheroic suffering and scrambling for success. In retrospect, his prose seems clotted, clumsy, pompous...