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...Friedrich, nature was an ethical teacher, a repository of religious experience. And when he found his pictures widely ignored (he was not a success in the marketplace), he succumbed to an almost paranoid embitterment, watching "realist" landscape triumph over his ideal form of it in the 1830s. For the naturalists, Friedrich had one last word. "If [the artist] sees nothing within him," he wrote, "then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him. Otherwise his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which"-startling phrase-"one expects to find only the sick or the dead...
...REAL difference between the two traditions and their corresponding contemporary mentalities becomes apparent not in the seminar room, nor in the dining hall or common room. The contrast between the realists and the romantics becomes most evident in the movie theater, where films like Casablanca, La Guerre Est Finie and Five East Pieces attract people of both the realist and romantic schools. But their reactions to the films are likely to occupy opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. After watching Humphrey Bogart lose his women at the airport, after witnessing Yves Montand's dangerous political activities in France, after watching...
...second, and produced the kind of appealing characters, sharp dialogue and thought-provoking positions on life and art that we know he is capable of from his earlier plays. As it is, Travesties stands about the lowest on any scale of dramatic values, whether conventional, modernist, dadaist or socialist-realist--botched intellectual sensationalism...
Tactical differences cannot easily be compared: Westmoreland was the crusader sent to win the war; Abrams was the realist sent to help end U.S. involvement in it. Differences in style, however, were clearer. Westmoreland was the stiff, ramrod, ceremonial-looking commander who saw light at the end of the tunnel. Abrams was a blunt, earthy soldier who gave reporters refreshingly frank estimates of the precarious American position and surprised critics of the Army by insisting on the prosecution of six Green Berets who murdered a suspected Vietnamese double agent...
...that self-determination is a fact after ten to 13 years of fighting." To an extent, Soares agrees with them. "Without that [popular] support, it would have been impossible to fight the war." But he does not accept all of their arguments. "I'm a democrat and a realist. There is no political organization anywhere that absolutely represents a population." In any referendum, he says, "we are prepared to accept control and inspection by an international organization like the United Nations...