Word: realism
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Roosevelt and Realism. When President Roosevelt was asked recently by the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick what he would say to Stalin, he replied that "to begin with he would announce that he was a realist and intended to discuss the problems that had to be dealt with in common on the basis of realism...
...Realism. Behind this hope loomed harsh realities. Foreign Commissar Molotov can be expected to shy away from pious phrases, present Russia's views and demands in hard, unequivocal words...
Said Britain's General Council of Shipping, after the press had reacted sharply, suspiciously: "Shippers have sufficient faith in American realism to believe that it will be recognized that how ever important the possession of an adequate merchant marine may be to the U.S., to Britain it is a vital necessity...
...that he is as good as the rest of the cast is high praise. Even the extras, for once, look like soldiers. Reason: they are soldiers who were training at Camp Young, Calif., near which the picture was made. Other members of the cast notable for their light, incisive realism are Kurt Krueger as the cold Nazi ace, Rex Ingram as the dignified Sudanese, John Wengraf as a treacherous Nazi major, Richard Nugent as a British doctor, Carl Harbord as an English ex-typesetter who likes poetry. Even more gratifying is J. Carrol Naish as the innocent, bewildered Italian prisoner...
Many a Friend could and did argue that Indiana Yearly Meeting had bravely faced the modern world with a modern realism, that the two resolutions simply put on record views which Friends have long been privately laboring with. The resolutions would enable Friends to exert a force in the postwar world commensurate with their Christian purpose...