Word: realistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of realist to write about people with romantic souls is a most tricky and difficult business. . . . There does not seem to be any way at all of writing about them except satirically or angrily. Once a writer's eye gets chilly about their beautiful souls he is like the only sober man at a drunken party and the only decent thing for him to do is either to get blind drunk with the rest of the boys or else go home and scrub himself clean in a raging satire on the whole boiling lot of them...
...that as it may, Elvis Presley's records were reported to be the nonsocialist-realist craze in Leningrad and elsewhere. Disks, bootlegged from U.S. records and cut on discarded hospital X-ray plates, sell for 50 rubles...
Miller, discussed Perry as an "Adventurer Among Ideas." He related the late philosopher to the general context of American philosophy in the first quarter of the 20th century, describing him as a realist as opposed to the naturalists, idealists, and pragmatists of his age. Especially a foe of idealism, Perry found his philosophy in the realism of history, seeing "history itself as philosophy," Miller said...
Williams further brought out the realistic side of Perry's philosophy, showing how his battle with idealism characterized him as a "New Realist." Perry, asserted Williams, "transcended the new enlightenment philosophy" with his "modern realistic humanism...
...wasted little time expropriating the treasures of Shchukin and other wealthy collectors, pooled them to form Moscow's famed Museum of Modern Western Art. Used as tourist bait for years, the museum was closed during World War II by Stalin, who liked his artists regimented and realist. Only in the post-Stalin years have the paintings begun to reappear in Leningrad's Hermitage and Moscow's Pushkin Museums...