Word: realistes
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...question has essentially resolved itself into a quarrel between the romantic and realistic points of view. The battle opens with the realist protesting against the archaism and viciousness of the theory that the gentleman pays because he is more liberally supplied with funds. There is generally no attempt to refuse this realistic contention, and from this point the argument conventionally assumes something of the following form...
Brother Lammot?tall and serious?his hair neatly parted on one side?peering through spectacles?is in many ways a slim edition of massive brother Pierre. But they differ in temperament. Lammot is a worker, a studious realist, where Pierre is a creative planner, an expansive idealist. Like Pierre's, his laugh is quiet, almost silent, but unlike Pierre's his interests are few and confined. Pierre crusades, but not Lammot. Pierre has conservatories; Lammot, conservatism...
Stripped of all ornament, bare and ruthless, the stark tragedy of the crash and of the separation of the party of survivors after nerves and bodies had broken under the long vigile on the ice make a story that should hold romanticist and realist alike. The castaways themselves tell of the great white silence and its terror...
...investigation by becoming Director of the Paris Office of the great Swedish ball bearing firm called S. K. F. (which controls the French ball bearing industry). Thus Dr. Bratt will receive the large salary which he frankly admits that he now needs, to put his children through college. A realist to the last, he will earn with S. K. F. what he has refused to earn from the Bratt Monopoly. Indeed he drew up the monopoly articles of incorporation with such cunning that nobody can profiteer in selling liquor to Swedes...
...realist and a beak-nosed aristocrat, Mr. Warren cannot stomach an inscription proposed by Monsignor Ladeuze...