Word: realisms
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...happened, the devaluation coincided with another lesson in realism and a demonstration of scaled-down American influence overseas: the end of the two-week war between India and Pakistan (see THE WORLD). The conflict, which the U.S. had been powerless to stop or seriously affect, cast a shadow over Richard Nixon's subtropical round of summitry...
...town, Yazoo City, Miss., back in 1967. This book, written for his son who lives in New York, celebrates Morris' boyhood in Yazoo before World War II. It is drenched in crawdads, squirrel dumplings, Delta woodlands, and Peck's-bad-boy jokes. But Morris eases out of realism into fantasy and back with no strain, and it's nice to think that somebody more contemporary than Huck Finn could remember it all that...
This instinct for realism has led him to graphic displays of violence. "It was a phony Hollywood fallacy to have people get shot and not seem to be dead at all," he declares. "I don't mind saying that I myself was sickened by my own film. But somewhere in it there is a mirror for everybody. If I'm so bloody that I drive people out of the theater, then I've failed...
...Edwardian Englishmen in tidal waters around Germany as immediate and harrowing as last summer's cruise to Cuttyhunk. Any sailor who hasn't read the book should do so. Unhappily, this special edition is tarted up with Rorschach-like woodcut and wash color illustrations, thus sabotaging the realism of tidal charts, maps and seamanlike detail. Readers with unlimited budgets might consider tearing out the pictures and billing the Imprint Society...
...theology is based on a vision of the cosmic evolution of man proceeding from the alpha point--base matter--to the omega point--the union of man and God in God's perfectness. Freire borrows this cosmic optimism for the future of man but tempers it with the political realism of Reinhold Niebur, an American Protestant theologian. Friere and Neibur feel that the cosmic evolution of man can become pathologically fixated at a certain point, and that to resume the hominization of man requires concrete political thinking and action. For Freire, this require a pedagogy of the oppressed...