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...That makes you a realist...
...hard-headed realist...
Even the social realist critics he had tried so hard to please ever since Stalin had scolded him for bourgeois tendencies had shown little patience with the bombastic Leninism of his Eleventh and Twelfth revolutionary symphonies. Mocking rumor had it that in his dacha outside Moscow, Shostakovich would next write a Sputnik symphony, and after that, a Soviet soccer symphony...
...Enviable Record. A realist, Baggs recognizes the uphill odds he faces against the Herald. "That big thing down the street,'' says he, "is a good newspaper." It is. Its Latin American coverage is superior to the News's, which gets along mostly on the hunches and the contacts of Latin American Editor Hal Hendrix, who almost never leaves Miami. In contrast, the Herald regularly sends men south of the border, often in teams, has a Latin American circulation (at $1 per airmailed copy) of nearly 5,000 that goes as far south as Chile. Although not quite...
...jagged-edged monosyllables. Altogether, it is a novel calculated not to warm the reader but to awe him-a familiar feat for British Novelist James Hanley, 61, whose past novels have won him critical, but not popular, acclaim for their cold fury. Herbert Read has called Hanley a "great realist." and C. P. Snow writes that for "sheer power he is not surpassed by any contemporary...