Word: realist
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...sized Century Theater made for hearing trouble.) But they had the main thing-a real Shakespearean robustiousness. In Part I they contrived a fine balance between the historical scenes and the humorous ones, a telling contrast between that arch-romantic and exemplar of heraldic honor, Hotspur, and that arch-realist and epitome of worldly wisdom, Falstaff. And they had for this two brilliant actors...
Diametrically opposed to this is the "realist's" pattern of thought. Dogging the footsteps of Winston Churchill, he calls for an Anglo-American alliance which would freeze the balance of power within the United Nations. He calmly accepts a policy which would soon reduce the machinery of the United Nations to an instrument for imposition of Anglo-American will...
Plagued by the multiple complaints of a slowly convalescing world, retarded in attending to long run solution of its needs, partially paralyzed by hypnotic fear of the atomic bomb, buffeted by the impatience of the perfectionist and the realist alike, the United Nations has no certainty of a long and useful life. The people of the world would do well to renew the faith expressed by President Roosevelt just before his death. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our fears of today...
...brilliant record in fighting the Germans, General Patton is now being smeared on every front page because he retained certain Nazis in political office. I know that there is no one with a more cordial hatred for the Germans than General Patton, but he is also a realist and a practical man. He has always used the means at hand to do his job as quickly and expeditiously as possible. And retaining a few Nazis in key position was a case of using the means at hand...
Ideally, the Report holds, graduates of our schools "would have been readied to conduct their own education throughout the rest of their lives for themselves." "Education is primarily self-teaching. But no realist will question that, as things are, relatively few adults left to their own devices will...