Word: realistes
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...impressionistic flair all his own, he faithfully recorded the comfortable little world of pleasant surroundings and relaxed people he knew and loved so well. As the title of the first major exhibition of his work, now at the Museum of Fine Arts, puts it, Fairfield Porter was a "realist painter in an age of abstraction." And now, a full seven years after his death, he is finally getting the recognition he deserved, but never received...
...realist. They're looking for a chief operating officer, and I wanted the job, but I'm no longer under consideration...
...activist McCall was--an activist whose concerns transcended the typical fare of political battles. Tom McCall was an activist and a realist, who recognized that if man is going to live much longer on this planet, he must learn to take care of it. In an age of overpopulation, starvation, and continual abuse of the natural environment, the importance of McCall's brand of far-reaching environmental planning cannot be overestimated. By initiating strict environmental controls on his own state, McCall set an example for the rest of the nation. Massachusetts and several other states have instituted bottle bills following...
Regrettably, Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev had never talked. The half a dozen letters that Reagan received from Brezhnev were stiff and cool. He remained in the eyes of Reagan a Communist bully. Richard Nixon, who spent days with the Soviet leader, caught the glint of a realist in Brezhnev, a man struggling within his own system to cool hot heads, a man sometimes mellowed by the memories of his father's admonition to bring peace to the world. There was a human bond...
...Aksyonov short story, like his celebrated Halfway to the Moon, could count on the immediate sellout of a 2 million-copy press run. No other prose writer of the post-Stalin generation commanded such an impassioned following; no other offered a more radical departure from the standard Socialist Realist fare. His nonconformity came naturally. Aksyonov had been born an alien in the Soviet world. He was the child of Stalin's victims: his father Pavel, the former Communist mayor of Kazan, served 18 years in the Gulag, and his mother Eugenia Ginzburg wrote two books about...