Word: realisms
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...restlessness. With her red sports car, and golden hair, Lorna comes close to parodying a jazz-age flapper. Still, while the lowerbrow in the schizoid Delderfield reader may thrill to such blood-stirring experiences as skinny dips and off-coast storms, his higherbrowed self can find plenty of social realism. Delderfield makes his reader see-and even smell-boarding-houses with names like Resthaven and Shangri...
...Nixon's tour was a good beginning, characterized by realism and restraint on all sides. Once again Richard Nixon proved that he travels well and can be a gifted President in the intricate realms of foreign policy. But that is only part of any President's duties, and his failures in the large area that has come under the Watergate rubric will be waiting to be reckoned with on his return...
...Fulbright gave respectability to the dissent," says Senator Frank Church, a committee member. Just as Fulbright's hearings clearly helped get the U.S. out of Viet Nam, his pleas over the years for realism and compromise contributed to the foundations of detente and Nixon's visits to Moscow and Peking...
...proposal is modest but Degler's study penetrates sections of the South's nineteenth century social fabric. Degler shows that race subordinated class interests even among dissenters, that realism rather than moralism set the cadence of Southern reform rhetoric, that Union sentiment in the South was more often "cautious, conservative and realistic" than egalitarian. And so he concludes logically that Southern dissenters still "wore the stamp of their region. They were Southerners...
Almost outside the realm of Restoration comedy, The Plain Dealer is practically unique among its seventeenth century counterparts. Whereas the plays of Etherege, Congreve and Farquhar are characterized by a lack of genuine emotion, a plot of less weight than their racy, epigrammatic wit, and an absence of realism, William Wycherley reversed these trends, hastening the decay of the comedy of manners. Pure intellect was replaced by feeling, pure wit by emotion. The Plain Dealer is an intriguing mixture of realism and artificiality, of emotion and intellect, lacking meanwhile the polished style and all-pervasive wit of the great masters...