Word: realism
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...brethren at the meeting called for a "supranational government, with powers adequate to the responsibility of maintaining the peace." They asked: "Is this realistic?" and answered by saying: "We believe that nothing less is realistic." The scientists did not go any further in examining the political realism of their world government proposal than Einstein's statement at the meeting that two-thirds of the people on the earth might be killed in an atomic war. That estimate (which is not scientifically checkable) seemed to be argument enough...
...logically brutal. It seemed to consecrate the ineptitude of the U.N. organization, and above all it seemed a negative policy. Le plan Marshall does not have these drawbacks for the French-this is something with a ring of nobility, a hint of great enterprise, something constructive which combines realism and humanism in a manner the French find irresistible...
...evacuated. The Assault is the story of his own participation in one of history's bitterest battles, in which 20,860 out of 71,245 troops who took part were casualties. Unavoidably, it covers much old ground without revealing anything new about war. Yet in its almost tedious realism and painful authenticity it plows deeper into the meaning of combat than many a more artfully written book...
Thanks to the fact that the ice was broken with the Wilder-Sistrom movie of James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, Hollywood can now get by with filming this kind of shabby "realism." The blessing is mixed. Apparently, U.S. moviegoers have matured to the point where they will stand for reasonably frank images of unhappy marriage, sour love affairs, and of a disease so gravely epidemic as Mr. Young's obsessive desire to stay in the money at all costs. But in this, as in most such "adult" movies, the semi-maturity is well mixed with trashiness...
Sterne, a polished craftsman, had hitherto painted what he saw with a cool, formal realism. He had been accustomed to making dozens of studies for each canvas, spending months on the final version. Then, all of a sudden, "I decided that I didn't have much time left and I'd been trying too hard...