Word: realistes
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...feel right, and the model's gotta feel right, too. I don't do much work from sketches, because unless the thing is there in front of you, you can't get the discipline. But don't get me wrong, I'm not a realist; painting is not that easy, it's not copying. Why, if I do one good picture in a year I'm tickled to death...
...Realist's Delight. Another new item this year is a plastic dollhouse, some of whose walls are conveniently missing, and whose rooms are outfitted with tiny plastic furniture ($8.95), complete with television...
...sends her dreams to the laundry.") It has lyrics by John LaTouche, music by Paul Bowles and features the voices of Libby Holman and Josh White on the sound track. The girl in the case is that familiar type of sexual idealist who later becomes a rampant realist...
...much time - more time, he thinks, than the world has. He is young enough to feel that his elders are timid, and mature enough to know that the present uneasy peace cannot last. And he is being heard. He disregards cynics. He thinks of himself as a practical realist and considers optimism foolish but hope necessary. "If this hope is naive," he says, "then it is naive to hope...
With the third book, The Realist, laid in 1918, the moral breakdown is complete. Huguenau, the central character, is a deserter. Clever, self-confident, cocky, a smooth salesman, he finds himself in a town where the aging Major von Pasenow (the hero of The Romantic) is the town commandant and where Esch, spiritualized and suffering, and with vague Messianic visions, is the editor of a failing radical paper. Huguenau becomes friendly with Esch in order to denounce him to the commandant, organizes a company to buy the paper, and is unmasked as a deserter just as the revolution begins...