Word: pragmatist
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...chief architect of the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that defines the basic rights of all mankind. Pleased as he is with the prize and the progress that has been made in human rights, Cassin is still very much the judicial pragmatist. "Peace is still distant," he notes, "and much remains to be done. Men of good will do not exist everywhere...
Their fall from grace indicates that Mao and Lin are under mounting pressure from the regime's comparative moderates, who want to get China back on course after the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. Chief among them is Premier Chou Enlai, a pragmatist who holds no truck with the Cultural Revolution and himself barely escaped the Red Guards' condemnation. Chou recognizes the practical necessity of compromise to hold China's 750 million people together...
...assessment of the company. Called in for the job, Dr. Heinrich Peesel, a Hamburg physicist, submitted a frankly "insulting" report that rapped Rollei for feeble R. & D. efforts and outdated production methods. Far from being insulted, the company hired Peesel to put his recommendations into effect. A youthful pragmatist who is now 42, Peesel had no taste for the European tradition of age in the executive suite; he brought in a young management team (average age: 38). Within a year, he saved $750,000 by cropping out 300 employees, many of whom "were just making work for one another...
...resists the temptation to slip him into the New Left cubbyhole and looks beneath the superficialities of speech and manner, Ferber comes forth as a complex, contradictory blend of the pragmatist and idealist, religionist and radical idealogue. His belief in non-violence is firm. His sense of perspective and grasp of social realities make him an exceptional even atypical, member of the New Left. If the government jails him, he just may have the entire prison organized before he leaves...
...even less of a political pragmatist. He apparently fails to appreciate the intuitive genius of the accomplished politician. He was outraged when people began to talk about John Lindsay for President after his walks through Harlem helped prevent riots last summer. Buckley wanted to know how this equipped him for the presidency: "Is the Secretary of State properly engaged in walking up and down the Biafran frontier, grinning and winking at the disputants? Would he then rush off to Wuhan, there to quiet the impulses of the Red Guards...