Word: realistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republic, Professor Morgenthau entered the Vietnam debate in earnest with an article on "Why U.S. Policy in Asia is Wrong." An admirer of Richelieu, Talleyrand, and Bismark, he could hardly be accused of starry-eyed idealism, and his name had been associated for many years with the power-conscious realist school of international relations. His central argument was that we were on the verge of entering a global anti-Communist crusade which would inevitably involve us in a disastrous war with China. In contrast to the doctrinaire emotionalism of a crusade, Morgenthau pleaded for a flexible and sophisticated policy based...
...fertilizer. Moreover, as a grower, consumer and notoriously tetchy voter, the U.S. farmer today is a rough-knuckled realist. Yet he has a wide streak of idealism. Those who, like Shuman, decry federal management of agriculture, do so in part with the prideful assurance that every attempt to keep the U.S. farmer from growing more food is doomed to failure. Today, thanks to revolutionized technology, the man who can make two ears of corn grow where one did before knows well that tomorrow there will be three-or four...
...praised for defending the autonomy of culture against the depredations of those who called for Commitment. But Mr. Lasch is far more interested in the failings of the '40's and '50's, and perhaps it is here that he is most illuminating. He notes that the post-Marxist "realist" school of political analysis, fathered by Niebuhr on Kennan, Morgenthau, Charles Osgood, Louis Halle, and John F. Kennedy, has based most of its concept of America's world role on the European situation, where the possibility of imperialism is understandably slight. Btu in the undeveloped world? Mr. Lasch hints that...
...which was in itself a pretty dubious romanticization of the past. But in 1953, with abstract expressionism firing off its salvos, Rivers might as well have glorified Benedict Arnold. Rivers was put down by the avant-garde as a reactionary, a brush-brandishing brontosaurus, or worst of all, a realist...
Harvard enters the 1965 season with almost as uncertain as last --but Shepard is enough of a realist know that once-in-a-lifetime miracles occur twice in two years...