Word: realistes
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...were by their own request hors concours. After that, the judges-British Art Expert Douglas Cooper, Andrew Ritchie, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, and Peter Wilson, chairman of Sotheby's, the London art auctioneers-did their heroic, committee-like best. One prize went to the immaculate realist Alex Colville, like Beaverbrook a native of New Brunswick, partly because-as one judge put it-"we all felt one Canadian ought to be chosen as a matter of courtesy...
...Reischauer sees himself as a scholar, a scholar gone government, but a scholar nonetheless. This certainly doesn't make him a member of some isolated academic world; in fact, he sees little inherent difference between a professor and a government official. "If a scholar isn't enough of a realist to be able to serve in the government, he isn't much of a scholar. And if an official doesn't have enough perspective, he won't be much of an official...
Charging that this kind of talk proves that the motive for the strike has little to do with dollars and cents, Ho said he would hold out against the unions for six months if necessary. But at week's end Realist Ho was back at the bargaining table with the unions just in case a quick settlement was possible...
...Shriver, if nothing else, is a realist. He shuddered when he heard himself described as "Mr. Clean." He did not dream up the Peace Corps. Indeed, when the time came in the winter of 1961 for John Kennedy to make good on a 1960 campaign promise to create the corps, he tapped his brother-in-law-and Shriver dodged. "But he told me," says Shriver, "that everyone in Washington seemed to think that the Peace Corps was going to be the biggest fiasco in history, and it would be much easier to fire a relative than a friend...
...show, in effect, plunged the U.S. realist tradition temporarily in the shadows. It was not until the 1950s, when the powerful wave of abstraction reached its peak, that the U.S. asserted itself strongly on the international stage. But if the show shattered Ashcan hopes of becoming the dominating force in U.S. art, those who called the U.S. provincial were obviously passing judgment too soon. From the older generation of Americans in the show, Albert Ryder's paintings live on to haunt posterity. Of those who were in their middle years, Walt Kuhn went on to do first-rate work...