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...What is so new about a nude in a room, done over and over again? Quite a lot, in fact. Pearlstein is by now a fixture of the museums and art-history books. He is 59 this year, and probably did more to "break the ice" for realist painting in America than any other artist of his generation. What is on the walls in Brooklyn embodies a struggle with convention as tenacious as any in modern American painting...
...unthinkable never diluted his evangelical optimism; during the past year he concentrated on selling his vision of a prosperous world future to schools and textbook publishers. "We've had 20 years of pessimism in this country," he said at a heated exchange at the Hudson Institute. "Being a realist today makes one an optimist...
...student community. But Lowenstein could not support anyone who wanted to overthrow the established political system. Arthur Schlesinger '38 writes: He was sure that the energy released in the turbulence of the 1960s could be turned from destructive to constructive uses. A man of reason, he abhorred violence: a realist, he understood that violence sundered the bonds of humanity and defeated its own objectives. His mission in the 60s was to replace violence by persuasion and to incorporate the disordered wrath of the New Left into the constitutional framework of American political action...
...imminent, sometimes to the chagrin of his hosts. When asked why his assessments of the talks were always gloomier than the Secretary's, Lebanese Foreign Minister Elie Salem replied: "Mr. Shultz is an American and by nature an optimist. I am from Lebanon and by nature a realist...
Shultz may yet turn into a realist; persuading Syria to go along with the accord will be a formidable task. When Lebanese Foreign Minister Salem flew to Damascus to brief Assad on the progress of the talks, Syrian officials raised so many objections that Salem became convinced that no agreement could possibly satisfy Syria...