Word: realist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statesmen to keep these rivalries at manageable levels. Progress he warns, will most often be unspectacular and painfully slow and actions may very well offend the public conception's of morality, especially in democracies. What The New Diplomacy evolves into, then is an eloquent defense of the traditional realist approach to international relations...
...pacification of Europe, a continent plagued for centuries with war, is according to the author, a perfect example of what a realist approach to diplomacy can do. The foundation of the post-war order consists of a balance of power and an amalgam of economic and security treaties, all the 3 products of years of labor and negotiations. After all, it took fifteen years for the Soviet Union to accept the permanence of Western interests in Berlin...
...power which Israel has exhibited may cause the world to "fear her," rather than "feel sorry" for her. "Congratulations," Oz adds sardonically. To the world at large, he defends the vision of Zionism and the necessity for a Jewish state "of our own." In the same breath, the realist impulse in Oz which led him to admit Israel's immorality permits him to suggest that the Zionist dream has soured, its limits reached. Now the struggle begins anew to find the direction for the Jewish state...
...peach brandy (rot'vitti), causing a sensation in a nightclub with an impromptu striptease. He attracts more than the routine attention of the state security police (HOGPo) as well as of most of the women he encounters, from the nymphomaniac wife of a British diplomat to a "magical realist" Slakan novelist who seduces him in a shower, quoting Marx and Freud all the while. "Do you think it is possible to make a dialectical synthesis?" the novelist says. "If we do it well, it might not produce a false consciousness...
...spirit of detached, colloquial reportage, as though all the proscriptions against figure painting had lost their magic. To suppose this was not a radical act, one would need to know very little about the pressures of ideology and convention in the New York art world of the time. Realist figurative painting was as unpopular then as abstract...