Word: realistes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thousands of people in the West, Willy Brandt has been one of the truly heroic figures of the postwar world. He is still remembered by many as the fighting mayor of West Berlin. More important, though, he was a statesman-realist who was determined to confront and conquer Germany's shameful past, a Europe-minded visionary who preached unity for the Continent, and the Nobel Peace-prizewinning architect of Ostpolitik. Konrad Adenauer cemented West Germany's ties with the West, and Ludwig Erhard fashioned the economic miracle that has made the Deutsche Mark the world's most...
Faltering Miracle. Few observers anywhere expect dramatic changes in French foreign policy, even if a non-Gaullist is elected. (French domestic policy is another matter entirely, especially if a leftist candidate wins.) Despite the resurgence of strident Gaullist rhetoric in recent months, Georges Pompidou was first and foremost a realist. At home the tragedy of his presidency was that he had to work almost in stealth on developing the "modern" France that he envisioned, lest he upset the orthodox Gaullist constituency to which he was chained. It was a project that he could not hope to finish. Even...
Presidential Counsellor Anne Armstrong met with the President to tell him of worry about the fall elections. Her report: Nixon was "on top of his job." He had the facts, and "he is a very clear-thinking realist." But even her enthusiastic portrayal of the President blurred into generalities. "He thinks we will be out from under the energy crisis, the economy will be on the upturn...
...said. The White House waiters hustled in the scrambled and poached eggs, the rashers of bacon and sausage. Nixon began to talk congressional politics, calling on G.O.P. National Chairman George Bush to run down the coming elections. In the morning light Nixon was a realist. His trouble was the Republican trouble right now. He could understand the candidates staying clear of him. That was O.K. But they had better be careful. "If they jump on me too hard, the hard core [G.O.P.] may retaliate," he said. It was mellow, civilized and sensible talk, yet incomplete. There was no mention...
When I was in high school, people sometimes called me an idealist. I would answer that the real idealists were those who believed that the world could continue to groan onward without completely falling apart, that I was actually a realist because I saw change as imperative. I also answered by using an old worn-out quote from Albert Camus--"Perhaps we cannot feed all the starving children in the world. But we can surely feed some of them. If you will not help us do this, who will help us do this?" And for all the quote's disarming...