Word: realistes
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...holes in all this need not be pointed out, Burnham, who numbers an interest in the Machiavellians among his fads, in no mean "realist" himself, flluging "sentimental" and "irrelevant" at all reasoning but his own. On his own terms, then, by passing all the powerful "unrealistic" arguments with his policy, we can find a weakness in his plan that makes his whole book little better than a syllogistic tour de force: he believes the American Empire must build absolutely on monopoly control of atomic weapons by this country. Wishfully, he disregards or brands as communist rumors all statements by scientists...
...chocolate-cream soldier," again Shaw's realist among a group of romantic faddists, provides the tongue with which the hirsute wit is able to spit his epigrams on man, war, and the state of things. Duvey, wagging the tongue weakly on this stage, managers, from time to time, to reiterate--in slightly more colorful idiom--that "diseretion is the better part of valor" and that "he who fights and runs away..." The play might to disregarded in favor of its preface, which, unfortunately, was not circulated beforehand...
...beef and brawn, Leahy can count on some help from the far sidelines-from nuns in convents, whose Saturday radio-side prayers go something like this: "God's will be done . . . but if it doesn't make any difference, let Notre Dame win." Says Frank Leahy, a realist, "The prayers work better when the players...
...Manhattan, James Aloysius Farley, a political realist and a shrewd observer of trends, said: "I have an uneasy feeling that the belief is spreading that people are not capable of governing themselves; that the problems today are so complex that the citizens at large must of necessity be detached from their own difficulties. The concept of the political elite is growing...
...dried, inflated pig bladders saved from the autumn slaughtering. Their one-room school was never painted-elders murmured evasively that they were waiting for the nailheads to rust. But even as a skinny, redheaded boy, Ed Crump stared at the world with the discerning eyes of a realist...