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Getlein recalled that a few years ago Critic Harold Rosenberg, the man credited with inventing the term "action painting," denounced a canvas by Realist Jack Levine for an odd reason. The painting was of a gangster's funeral, and Rosenberg said that since everyone knew all about gangsters already, Levine was a mere formalist. The abstract expressionists, with their great swirls and blots, showed something no man had ever seen before. They were, therefore, the truer artists. Getlein noted that Rosenberg's "tradition of the new," if carried to its logical conclusion, would pretty much dispose of Michelangelo...
Kudos for TIME ! Kennedy as Man of the Year and TIME as Realist of the Year...
...demand, "Say that again: What does it mean?" If an adviser strayed from the discussion at hand, the President would cut in, politely but crisply, "That's not the problem at the moment." Annigoni's judgment: "He seemed very calm: sober but not at all pessimistic. A realist, I think-a man who sees things as they are." It was this Kennedy, alert, responsive and concerned, not the grinning campaigner, that Annigoni tried to catch. "He didn't smile very much while I was there," said Annigoni...
Disturbing Gains. But John Kennedy is a political realist. As he looked beyond the major Democratic victories in New York City and New Jersey, he could see that the Republicans had made disturbing local gains from Buffalo to Louisville, from Toledo to Tucson-often eroding Democratic strongholds. Almost everywhere, the elections had been tightly fought, clearly presaging a hot contest next November, when the voters will choose all the members of the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate...
...public occasions, including Communist Party Congresses, Nikita Khrushchev exudes confidences, pretends to see the imminent "downfall of capitalism and the establishment of Communism." But a hard-eyed realist in the Communist camp must recognize what many a Western pessimist does not: the cold war is by no means going all Russia's way. Area by area, the real view from Moscow shapes up something like this...