Word: realism
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...understandable joy of the editors of the Catholic Digest over their recent poll should be tempered with a large dose of realism. It is very easy to check an answer on a questionnaire, particularly if the answer proves one a good person. It is quite another matter to live on the assumption of the validity of the Christian (or even the theistic) philosophy in the routine of daily life...
...strides have been made toward realism. From France there is a lifelike bulldog which shakes its head, opens its mouth and growls at the tug of a leash ($16.95). Ohio's Doepke Manufacturers has a 19-in. fire engine made to scale from the famed La-France, with an extendible ladder and a hose that shoots a 20-ft. stream of water ($15.95). But the ultimate in realism was achieved by Chicago's Marlin Electric Co. It has a 4-lb., battery-powered toy lie detector, about the size of a small table radio...
...Communists there have shifted tactics a bit. Like the Chinese Reds, they are now trying to wreck the Christian churches by infiltrating them. Last week the Communist-run East German Christian Democratic Union Party published a set of 22 articles setting forth the point of view which "Christian realism" now directs all East Germans to adopt...
Mauldin's pen & ink infantrymen from Stars & Stripes were a biting commentary on the long-suffering dogfaces of World War II. By surrounding Willie and Joe with a threadbare plot and substituting slapstick for the original's realism, Back at the Front succeeds in making Willie and Joe look more like two-dimensional comic-strip characters than they ever have before...
Parsons remembers that in the pre-convention stage of the campaign he leaned to Eisenhower, but he had a "pretty immediate favorable reaction to Stevenson's nomination." "He struck me right away as a man of high ideals combined with practical realism...