Word: realist
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...more sophisticated and long-range perception of self-interest, an ability to learn from experience and the realization that a relationship will continue over time. When games of "Prisoner's Dilemma" are played over long periods, a strategy of reciprocity proves to be most effective. On such realist premises, it is quite possible to expect a gradual evolution of American-Soviet cooperation...
...deal is worth Daniloff's continued detention. Ironically, that is exactly the way Reagan used to talk as a candidate and in the early days of his presidency. Now, however, he is running not for election but for the history books. He wants to be remembered as the tough realist who negotiated the most favorable arms-control bargain the U.S. ever won from the Soviets. He has been encouraged in this by Nancy Reagan, who wants her husband to be remembered as a peacemaker, and by pragmatic advisers like Shultz. So Reagan has opted for a trying-to-have...
Titled "Russia, The Land, the People: Russian Painting 1850-1910," the exhibit of 62 realist late-19th century Russian paintings is one of 13 cultural, educational and scientific exchanges between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, resulting from November summit meetings between President Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail S. Gorbachev, United States Information Agency (USIA) officials announced this week...
...conscientious objector who staunchly supports America's military buildup. He is a lifelong Democrat who advised Walter Mondale on foreign policy but who today works for Ronald Reagan. By his own estimation, Max Kampelman, 65, the chief U.S. negotiator at the Geneva arms- control talks, is an idealistic realist who entertains no illusions about the Soviet Union. As the fifth round of the current negotiations continued last week, Kampelman called the U.S.S.R. "probably the most deadly and most serious adversary" the U.S. has ever known...
...mystery drains away. Too often his work seems like a nostalgic recapitulation of Italian quattrocento sculpture, Desiderio da Settignano in particular. But of his power over the flat surface, there is no doubt. What we see there, in midcareer and at the height of his powers, is the greatest realist artist alive...