Word: realism
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...most realistic and mature analysis of the world situation to appear in a leading magazine. It is especially encouraging to any student of Christian theology in the scholastic tradition to see its realism brought out of the catacombs and applied. Education, public or private, grades or college, is epitomized by Utopianism (your excellent example, UNism). Even our educators are beginning to admit our educational system is goalless, its fruits: nationalism and relativism, and this dream belief in "the perfectibility of man," quickly shattered by the evidence of our senses. The principles of Dostoevski's Grand Inquisitor are gratefully accepted...
...Unknown Prisoner, Butler chose something between abstraction and realism: a forbiddingly cold and empty structure, rising like some futuristic television antenna, with three grieving women looking up from beneath. Butler thinks that his symbolism suits a monument far better than any standard, realistic figure. Says he: "You must avoid the reaction, 'Oh, poor chap, he does look thin.' And if I made a statue of a god, it would be a big man or a small man with a big tummy or a flat tummy. So to make an image, I conceive a prisoner who is invisible...
...helped Boy Scout Troop 25 set up a camping scene exhibit in his display window as part of a citywide contest, spent the next two days in bed nursing a head-to-toe poison-oak rash, learned that the exhibit had won the first prize for, among other things, "realism...
...along with six other composers, including Shostakovich and Khachaturian, he was in hot water again in 1948, when the Communist commissars complained that his music was too full of "formalism" -i.e., it was too tricky for the Soviet public to understand easily-and that he should compose with more "realism." And when he failed to correct his "errors" quickly enough, his opera, Story of a Real Man, drew a sharp, critical blast from Izvestia. It was not until 1951 that he won another Stalin prize...
Fourth Dimension. In Manhattan, John Reynolds sat in a theater engrossed in the realism of a three-dimensional movie showing sea lions splashing in their London Zoo pool, felt a light spray on his face, saw beads of water fog his polarized glasses, got out of his seat and found two boys in a front row shooting water pistols at the audience...