Word: realism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman's decision to inform others of her condition must be dictated by realism, said Cynthia Secor, the director of a management training program who is currently recovering from inflammatory breast cancer...
THESE details are often the only clue available to establish an identity, and together the details give the book a sort of magic realism. The details begin to separate themselves from the more powerful cultures that have transcribed them; the Khazar world acquires a fantastic character that distinguishes it from the Jewish, Moslem and Christian voices through which it must speak...
...pull to isolationism is likely to be challenged not by realism but by two other energetic foreign policy models, both more attuned to the moralism that characterizes America's approach to the world. One is an internationalism of the kind envisioned briefly in the mid-1940s by the Western founders of the U.N. but made impossible by the cold war. In the absence of intractable ideological conflict between the U.S. and the Soviets, internationalism would no longer be a hopelessly utopian idea. (In fact, even during the cold war, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union found a temporary convergence...
Sontag's first two collections of essays, Against Interpretation and Styles ) of Radical Will, also made her a crucial guide to the intentions of the avant- garde. She attacked Anglo-American fiction for being "deeply, if not irrevocably, compromised by philistinism," for clinging to realism instead of pursuing experimental technique, as James Joyce and Gertrude Stein had done. In all, the effect of her complaints was electric, a bracing shot at some of the more complacent positions in American thought. But her critics accused her of trendiness, of bowing to Europe, of hostility to art's moral purposes. They charged...
...much as we welcome the change in the Soviet Union, now is not the time to abandon realism about what makes the Soviet Union move," Bush said. "Soviet military spending is up. The Soviets continue to modernize their forces" and "Soviet tank armies are still poised to take the offensive in Europe with great advantage on their side...