Word: realistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turk is a nice guy to have on our side. He's a realist, he knows where he's going, he's got the guts and stamina to get there. He's a realist, certainly, in his dealings with the U.S. By coming to Turkey's aid in 1947, the Americans raised themselves to the position of second least hated foreign nation (least hated: the Germans). We have made a valuable gesture of recognition now by sponsoring Turkey for NATO membership. The Turks are properly appreciative. But it is a mistake to say that Turkey...
Hans Morgenthau has never been lost in an ivory tower. A foreign policy expert from the University of Chicago, he promises to rid his 175 Summer School students of their "favorite illusions" before the close of the term. Morgenthau, himself, is a professional realist who finds idealism very expensive...
...Southern comedy of manners is always rubbing elbows with a Chekhovian study of character. And The Autumn Garden has the relaxed Chekhov method without his unifying lyrical mood-his sense that if people delude themselves, life is itself delusive. Actually Chekhov cuts deeper than Miss Hellman because, being a realist rather than a moralist, he very seldom grants his characters the ability to face the truth about themselves...
...cheerful pictures, Henry does. It also shows Koerner's growing independence of involved, story-telling props. The children's airplane swing on which the figure poses might be taken to symbolize the young showoff side of any artist's make-up as well as the realist's happy lot-which is to go around looking. The jar of fish he totes with him might symbolize almost anything. But those two props do not make the painting, or even intrude on it too much...
...words, he looks upon the future as a "realist with vision." He does not recognize war as inevitable, but he feels that the next few decades will be a time of tension. "Education must play its part by producing capable leaders and citizens. If education can meet that challenge, a better world may yet be ahead...