Word: realist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loses again, every realist artist and portraitist in America, as well as every satirist, had better beware...
...skillful military management, Haig forged the various NATO members into a more cohesive fighting unit. He conducted more realistic maneuvers, with tanks and trucks squeezing through narrow village streets instead of rolling along the autobahns. Units were ordered to engage in simulated combat with no advance warning-a genuine test of readiness. Says one of Haig's top commanders: "He revitalized NATO." A British army general agrees: "As Supreme Commander, he was both impressive and persuasive. When Al Haig fixes those eyes on you and urges you to do this or that, there is virtually no way to refuse...
...every way, the ferocity of the Weimar artists echoed the instability of the society itself, its institutions continually atotter from the assaults of left and right, of which the final result was the triumph of Hitler. But to classify them all (as the catalogue sloppily does) as "realist" is sim ply to abolish the meaning of the word...
...that commits itself to the application of virulent stereotypes, as Grosz's did, is not realist at all, and this problem be comes still worse with a painter like Georg Scholz. Scholz's Industrialized Farmers, 1920, is all rant and bile directed against the country folk whose profiteering helped cause the postwar shortages of food in German cities. Sly, pig-stupid and stuffed with moral rectitude, this rural trio looks like a brutal parody of Grant Wood's American Gothic (in fact, it was painted ten years earlier). Scholz took care to spread his political insult...
...transformation from an idealistic and moralizing man who had called for the total abolition of nuclear weapons in his Inaugural Address to a more hard-headed realist who better understands power and existence, the perfidy of others and the limitations of his own authority is by no means complete and may never be. Still it is the most profound change the President has undergone in this term...