Word: realist
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...know anybody who can do it any better than I can. It isn't going to be so bad. You've got time to think-and besides, the pay is pretty good." Yet he was always the realist, and a year later he frankly admitted: "This job is interesting, but the possibilities for trouble are unlimited. It's been a tough first year, but then they're all going to be tough...
...President, Mr. Kennedy demonstrated his capacity for clear thinking and decisive action. He was a political realist, but few could accuse him of lacking commitment. And of him his own words, from his Pulitzer Prize history, profiles in Courage, speak most fittingly...
What is surprising about French Neo-Realist Marc Saporta's do-it-yourself novel-which by all logic should have been a boring nonbook-is that it turns out to be a provocative piece of literary gimcrackery. This is in large part due to Saporta's skill at clicking off brisk, precise, sensuous sentences with the cool ease of a man spinning coins on a marble table. But it owes much to his use of the literary come-on. On one page, for example, Dagmar is seen standing next to a Christmas tree. "Through the tree...
...Film Festival, proved to be a masterly examination of an old Italian tradition: the long engagement. In both full-length pictures, Olmi's art is clearly the art of a fine documentarist, an art that tries to be more like life than life itself. He is a social realist without a social program, a poet of the commonplace...
...filmmaker, on the other hand is preoccupied with the concrete evils in a political and social world. His tyrants have historical and geographical reality, and this a depth of horror that Voltaire's did not. And Carbonnaux' Dr. Pangloss is frightingly recognizable as the "realist" spokesman who rationalizes in turn aristicracy, Nazism, Communism, sultanism, and transquilizers. It is harder for us to resolve this 20th century philosophical tale for the horror behind the comedy is so much more evident...