Word: realisms
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Sancho admits that the guerrilla high command is Marxist, but "it is a Marxism that is 100% Salvadoran. We know we have to act with great realism and seek a policy of coexistence between our little peoples of Central America...
...Realism overcomes ideology...
...could almost hear the sigh of relief here," said a top executive of France's Rhone-Poulenc chemical and fiber conglomerate. Applauded the conservative Paris daily Le Figaro: "It seems that realism has finally overcome ideology." Even Pierre Charpy, a spokesman for the opposition Rally for the Republic Party, conceded that the long-dreaded move by the Socialist government of President Francois Mitterrand was "not a scandal...
Ozick is more successful when she builds on realism. Lucy of the title story is a convert to Judaism who marries Feingold, a Manhattan editor obsessed with the persecution of medieval Jews. Both Feingolds have published novels, spend their evenings toiling over new books, and joke that they are "secondary-level people." Only it is not a joke. "Jews and women!" thinks Lucy. "They were both beside the point. It was necessary to put aside pity; to look to the center; to abandon selflessness; to study power...
...awakening concern for others abroad, appeared a great aberration, an enormous contradiction. But EI Salvador would have made perfect sense in the 1950s, and it makes perfect same now, when the world is once again divided up into East and West and at home compassion has given way to "realism," that self-serving philosophy of men threatened by a change in the fundamental order of things. Nothing to the upset about? Not at Harvard, where "imperialism" is an I.D. on your Soc. Stud, generals, where the Reagan tax cut means a boost in most people's "disposable family income." People...