Word: realisms
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...REPORT FROM MIAMI Beach following the Democratic Convention last summer portrayed the November election as a test of tempered idealism versus hardshell realism. Richard Nixon won the election. Tempered idealism was lost in the shuffle...
This is what is known in the present Republican Party as hardshell realism. It works...
Indeed, any tempered idealists who envision 1976 as a broad-based rejection of Nixon-Republican realism had better consider the groundwork being done on all levels by Republicans before reassuring themselves that the mandate of 1972 cannot be foisted upon the American people again four years hence...
...this last tentative objection may be reactionary: we are used to ephemeral contemporary novelists (for example, Updike) who find beautiful ways of circumventing and clever ways to hedge. Rhodes's is a new and highly original kind of realism. We need it badly, but it will be hard to accept without more from the same young writer...
...ALTHOUGH REALISM of this sort constitutes a major portion of pre-Raphaelite art, there are only a few examples in the current exhibition organized by a Fine Arts graduate student, Beth Mandelbaum. For "Triumph of the Innocents" William Hunt travelled to Palestine to find precisely the right road for his representation of the flight from Egypt. Yet, ironically, for all the cherubic children and floating bubbles that accompany the Christ child, in this particular painting the meticulously executed landscape is barely visible. Grenville Winthrop, who donated this pre-Raphaelite collection to the Fogg in 1943, showed a marked preference...