Word: realists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life. Faulkner describes its persons and places: down & outers in Manhattan's Penn Station, war veterans living on pride, hungry poets mooching from a successful colleague. If this were all that Faulkner could do, he would be buried in an obscure corner of U.S. letters, as a minor realist in the tradition of Dos Passes, Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald...
...grab Eniwetok. Thus the Navy's spectacular leapfrogging technique was born. Often, Nimitz remembers, he and Sherman would retire to the big map room where they would talk, look at the map and think. Said Nimitz: "Sherman never hesitated when things looked worst. He's a realist without being a pessimist...
Last week, while. Manhattan moviegoers waited in line to see the picture, Maggiorani was in an unheated flat near Rome, playing the role of the buffeted worker all over again. But this time it was more realistic than even realist De Sica could make...