Word: realist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realist to the core, Gulbenkian did not expect to keep Standard from going into Saudi Arabia by holding it to the "Red Line" agreement. But if the agreement is to be abrogated, so that Standard and Socony would not have to share their Arabian oil with Iraq Petroleum partners, Gulbenkian wanted to be paid off. So far, his price has looked too high to Standard...
...hunters, trappers and guides-are seen, smelt and heard with a consistency and solidity of understanding that makes most other writing about them seem perfunctory or fake. All the romantic qualities that a boy could find in these figures -their lonely hardihood, keenness and courage-are combined with a realist's grasp of them as rough and wayward fugitives from society. The idiom of their thought and speech has never been so richly used in fiction...
...holes in all this need not be pointed out, Burnham, who numbers an interest in the Machiavellians among his fads, in no mean "realist" himself, flluging "sentimental" and "irrelevant" at all reasoning but his own. On his own terms, then, by passing all the powerful "unrealistic" arguments with his policy, we can find a weakness in his plan that makes his whole book little better than a syllogistic tour de force: he believes the American Empire must build absolutely on monopoly control of atomic weapons by this country. Wishfully, he disregards or brands as communist rumors all statements by scientists...
...chocolate-cream soldier," again Shaw's realist among a group of romantic faddists, provides the tongue with which the hirsute wit is able to spit his epigrams on man, war, and the state of things. Duvey, wagging the tongue weakly on this stage, managers, from time to time, to reiterate--in slightly more colorful idiom--that "diseretion is the better part of valor" and that "he who fights and runs away..." The play might to disregarded in favor of its preface, which, unfortunately, was not circulated beforehand...
...beef and brawn, Leahy can count on some help from the far sidelines-from nuns in convents, whose Saturday radio-side prayers go something like this: "God's will be done . . . but if it doesn't make any difference, let Notre Dame win." Says Frank Leahy, a realist, "The prayers work better when the players...