Word: realism
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...clarity in U.S.-Japanese relations was apparent last week. In Washington the tension seemed to ease; in Tokyo the tension seemed to increase. Actually both the U.S. and Japan were acting directly along the lines of their dominant policies. The week was one of realism on both sides...
...moved his attention and many a U.S. ship into the Atlantic. Neither the U.S. nor Japan wants a U.S.-Japanese war. Therefore the U.S. would go on aiding China against Japan, and the Japanese would carry on their aggression against China and southeast Asia-both policies based on national realism...
Devotees of theatrical realism could at least take satisfaction from the fact that the record-breaking play was about as far from a drama of escape as it is possible to imagine. And enemies of Broadway's dramacritics could enjoy remembering that almost every one of them, with the exception of the late, wise Percy Hammond, had damned the play and said it had no chance. Last week Playwright Kirkland announced that he would give several of Tobacco Road's props-a wagon wheel, a tree branch, a well, a shack-to the Smithsonian Institution...
Getting there first is one job the Navy could successfully take on. Only deterrent to preventive occupation last week was not Navy realism, but the U.S. State Department. For any such blow at Vichy would destroy the last diplomatic threads between Washington and Petain, might even commit the U.S. to fighting where the Navy would have a harder time...
Unorthodox Joe Lee long ago decided that realism, not theory, should be the basis of a sound education. So dissatisfied was he with the history texts used in schools that he wrote one of his own. (No school has yet adopted it.) Joe's version of the Revolution: "The people who were here took cannon, powder and shot, and buried them in King George. . . . And King George went up in the air in a million pieces and came down in flakes called dollar bills. And the people went out and grabbed the dollar bills, and then they began...