Word: realism
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...November 1955, Earl Warren, longtime governor of California and new Chief Justice of the U.S., was remarkably candid in specifying his hopes for the direction of U.S. justice over the next quarter-century. Satisfied that "the more cynical forms of 'legal realism' are growing less fashionable," Warren declared for a credo of legal idealism. "It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive," he wrote in FORTUNE. "The beginning of justice is the capacity to generalize and make objective one's private sense of wrong." Earl Warren's Supreme Court...
...Western world are deeply indebted to you for your dramatic account [May 20] of Cardinal Wyszynski. It tells beautifully, in vivid realism, the story of a noble primate who is an astute statesman and diplomat as well as a great religious leader. I speak as a Protestant, in deep sympathy with the cardinal's patriotic service to his country and to all mankind as well...
...different tenor, sounded by London's Liberal News Chronicle: "Anything that encourages the U.S. to withdraw into 'Fortress America' is bad for the free world. The policy of backing the discredited Chiang may be stupid, but riots like this encourage isolationism, not realism, in the United States...
Cockroaches & Poltroons. In June 1940 Jean Dutourd was 20, and for all of two weeks a pseudo soldier in a pseudo army in a pseudo fight. He and his fellow soldiers had a shrugging attitude of callow "realism," which is "a polite translation of the word cowardice." He describes how after the German breakthrough he and five buddies wandered around Brittany like truant schoolboys, cadging six meals a day from the peasants, who treated them as heroes. Only one farmer told them off: "Get out! If you had fought, you'd be fed now instead of having...
...Anger (TIME, April 22). Look Back is a high-decibel three-act diatribe, mainly on mom, wife, God and country. Hero Jimmy has just written a poem called "The Cess Pool." His wife hovers over an ironing board-one of the endemic props of this school of social realism, together with dirty dishes and wet "nappies"' (diapers). At the slightest provocation Jimmy turns into a verbal epileptic, particularly concerning his wife -"When you see a woman in front of her bedroom mirror, you realize what a refined sort of a butcher she is. Did you ever see some dirty...