Word: realism
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...feeding coded instructions into computers, a flight instructor can suddenly and without warning create emergency conditions, such as brake or control-surface locking, icing, failures of power. To lend realism, a TV picture of a huge scale model of an airfield shows the pilot how the appearance of the ground changes as he takes off and lands. In addition to United, eleven other lines will school their pilots for the jet age on Link trainers, both for the DC-8 and Boeing 707. The trainers will save the lines huge sums, since it costs only $36 an hour to learn...
...Moral Realism? When it came to what to do about the sorry state of the world, the delegates admitted that they had "no simple recipes," fell back on such familiar churchman's cliches as "creative adjustment and accommodation," "painstaking, patient negotiation, preferably through a strengthened and expanded United Nations," and "a stronger measure of moral realism...
...have aroused some ahs, some boos and a great deal of hullabaloo. Tourists, critics, even State Department officials have suggested that these works give a one-sided-and distorted-glance at the U.S. world of art. This week a new European show of American paintings is stressing another side-realism...
...Whitney Museum, 22 realistic paintings (among them: works by Edward Hopper, John Sloan, Maurice Sterne, Reginald Marsh Charles Sheeler) are on view in the ancient French Riviera château fortress of La Napoule. Sponsored by the La Napoul( Art Foundation-Henry Clews Memorial the show, titled "American Realism in the Twentieth Century," is aimed at bringing Europe "another page of American art history." Said one U.S. cultural attaché in France: "At last we have something to show Europeans besides abstract blotches and curlicues...
...then, this kind of writing is old as last week's sports page; we are addicted today to categories--realism, impressionism, and the craft of fiction...