Word: realistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second, and produced the kind of appealing characters, sharp dialogue and thought-provoking positions on life and art that we know he is capable of from his earlier plays. As it is, Travesties stands about the lowest on any scale of dramatic values, whether conventional, modernist, dadaist or socialist-realist--botched intellectual sensationalism...
Tactical differences cannot easily be compared: Westmoreland was the crusader sent to win the war; Abrams was the realist sent to help end U.S. involvement in it. Differences in style, however, were clearer. Westmoreland was the stiff, ramrod, ceremonial-looking commander who saw light at the end of the tunnel. Abrams was a blunt, earthy soldier who gave reporters refreshingly frank estimates of the precarious American position and surprised critics of the Army by insisting on the prosecution of six Green Berets who murdered a suspected Vietnamese double agent...
...that self-determination is a fact after ten to 13 years of fighting." To an extent, Soares agrees with them. "Without that [popular] support, it would have been impossible to fight the war." But he does not accept all of their arguments. "I'm a democrat and a realist. There is no political organization anywhere that absolutely represents a population." In any referendum, he says, "we are prepared to accept control and inspection by an international organization like the United Nations...
...will probably play both warrior and drunk. In fact, he is a quiet, ambitious realist. "I want to cram everything into my life. I think it goes back to what I started with. I was nothing as a person and I had nothing. What could I be by the time I was 70? I thought, I am going to live. I don't want anything left at the end that I wanted to do. I want the marvelous knowledge that when I am finished, I have done everything...
...preacher of patience," he warns; "I'm highly impatient myself." But then comes the phrase that puts Leonard's impatience in his role in the Bok administration in context: "On the other hand, I'm also a realist...