Word: realistes
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...tough-minded but genial realist who coached track while president of Queens, likes to do carpentry and fiddle on the violin, Theobald combines a certain sympathy for modern educational theories with a no-nonsense attitude towards such practices as promoting all students automatically. "This," says he, "puts a premium on misbehavior." He has even publicly advocated placing incorrigibles in separate schools rather than allowing them to muddy the ones they are in. Though he agrees that the public schools must meet the needs of each child, he also thinks that "there comes a time when...
...psychoanalytically-oriented age. Jone's third volume is a fitting climax to his description of the dramatic life of the man who made us more aware of the irrational motivations of our behavior than any other, a fitting tribute to a man who died as he had lived--a realist...
...Peale did raise two painting sons, one of whom, first-named Raphaelle, surpassed the father. But the 20th century does offer an outstanding example of an American artist following in his father's footsteps. The one is Andrew Wyeth (TIME, Jan. 7), at 40 the most revered young realist and perhaps the highest-paid painter in America. His father, N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth, was half-forgotten until last week, when an exhibition at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries restored him to his rightful place in the nation's art history...
Agee had a unique way of looking at reality, unblinking and with the lens-precision of the movies he loved, yet gentle-the manner of a tender realist. His description of how the boy and his sister are led to see their father's corpse in the coffin will linger with readers for a long time...
...nation's most admired painters can hold and express views as diametrically opposed as those of Mark Tobey and Andrew Wyeth, a healthy state of tension exists. "Multiple space bounded by white lines," Abstractionist Tobey tells the world without a wink, "symbolizes higher states of consciousness." And Realist Wyeth replies: "What the subject means is the most important thing...