Word: realists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Film Festival, proved to be a masterly examination of an old Italian tradition: the long engagement. In both full-length pictures, Olmi's art is clearly the art of a fine documentarist, an art that tries to be more like life than life itself. He is a social realist without a social program, a poet of the commonplace...
...filmmaker, on the other hand is preoccupied with the concrete evils in a political and social world. His tyrants have historical and geographical reality, and this a depth of horror that Voltaire's did not. And Carbonnaux' Dr. Pangloss is frightingly recognizable as the "realist" spokesman who rationalizes in turn aristicracy, Nazism, Communism, sultanism, and transquilizers. It is harder for us to resolve this 20th century philosophical tale for the horror behind the comedy is so much more evident...
...geniuses who made Boston's James T. Fields the most influential American publisher during the middle years of the 19th century were not abnormally fragile. Yet of Fields's list, Holmes, Emerson and Hawthorne are honored but widely unread; Harriet Beecher Stowe is a historical curiosity; the realist William Dean Howells is read chiefly by thesis writers; Longfellow and Whittier are snickered at; and Edwin P. Whipple, Henry Giles, John G. Saxe and a shelfful of others are wholly forgotten. Only Thoreau's reputation is still alive, and Thoreau is more often revered than read...
...sees no contradiction between these two roles, and insists, in fact there is little inherent difference between a professor and a government official. "If a scholar isn't enough of a realist to be able to serve the government, he isn't much of a scholar. And if an official doesn't have enough perspective, he won't be much of an official...
Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 agreed that scheduling conflicts among large, populous courses is an urgent problem and one that "we are certainly going to try to work on." He called a departmental quota system "a definite start to ward solving the problem," but said "I'm enough of a realist to think you're still going to get logjams...