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...think I liked you better, Nicholas," said the Muse of History, "when you were only a weakling Tsar. You are becoming a realist...
Meanwhile, President-elect Arévalo, a realist, had sent a mission to Washington in search of the Lend-Lease arms reported to have been promised to his predecessor. Dictator Federico Ponce. The mission, which traveled by plane, was surrounded by as many cloud banks of secrecy as a Big Three meeting. Some members swooped out of the clouds long enough to be recognized in Chicago. Others, supposed to be in Washington, had gone officially underground...
First War. The Golden Rooms is the second volume of Vardis Fisher's imaginative reconstruction of primitive human life. First: Darkness and the Deep. The work of an Idaho-born realist whose straightforward, unadorned stories of Mormon farm life were too bitter for many readers, The Golden Rooms is so different from his earlier books (Toilers of the Hills, In Tragic Life) that it might be the work of a different writer. They were heavily written, with occasional inspired passages. The Golden Rooms is simple, skillful, steadily interesting...
...Chinese expeditionary force now fighting in North Burma. A protégé of Generalfssimo Chiang (who officiated at his wedding), General Chen is a veteran of Kuomintang campaigns against warlords and Communists. But of all Kuomintang generals, he is generally regarded as persona gratissima with the Communists. A realist who is perfectly sure of his own democratic political faith, he gets along easily with Chou Enlai, Yenan's shrewd emissary who last week was back in Chungking...
...Jones is realist enough to know that moral desire is not enough to constitute a program, and Professor Becker does not kick the fellow who is ready with the blueprint out his Cornell study window. Different in temper and approach, Becker and Jones can nevertheless be reconciled and harmonized. They want the same thing: a four-power agreement among the Russians, the Chinese, the Americans and the British. They want the agreement to be moral in content. Whether they reckon with the possibility that moral unity may prove to be a pious dream in a world that includes both communists...