Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farewell to too great idealism on matters of education. Realism to us is more important. For proposals and measures that are premised on a university full of super-scholars we promise ridicule, while we shall support any move towards giving the average man a better education. Rigidity in scholastic requirements is in itself a form of idealism, and every possible increase in flexibility, every real recognition of the difference between the exceptional and the usual student will receive our unqualified approval. Finally, we hold it nonsensical to attack those institutions which have made Yale what it is, however uneducational some...
...President was so impressed that he had the film made from the book shown twice at the White House and Pundit Walter Lippmann composed a high-minded sermon on its lack of intrinsic importance. Now, without benefit of a rewrite-man, the Briton who learned his political realism under David Lloyd George has tried it again, in another fuzzy apocalyptic novel of the future...
...engaging article on "The Coming American Revolution" which is decidedly more reasonable and objective than many that have written on the subject. The editors of "Fortune" are represented with their timely and now well-known article on "Arms and the Men." Zona Gale writes a delightful essay on "Period Realism" and Newton Arvin does an equally pleasing piece of writing on "Our Haughty Poets...
Likening present-day religion to the trickling remains of a once mighty African river, Dr. Schweitzer said that idealism has given way to realism: "What is characteristic of our age is that we no longer really believe in social or spiritual progress, but face reality powerless." Identifying idealism with ethics and with "thinking religion," he recalled that this spirit flourished in the 18th Century, that it gave impetus to such reforms as the abolition of slavery, that its great desire was "to make the kingdom of God a reality on earth." But in the 19th Century Napoleon Bonaparte and philosophers...
...from A Pin to See the Peepshow. Readers to whom she is not even a name may be agreeably surprised at the bright zest of its introductory pages, increasingly depressed as its long middle section threatens to turn hopelessly humdrum. But they will do well to persevere. From boring realism the story finally emerges into agonizing, deeply moving life...