Word: realist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their ears hear a prophetic rumbling. A novel without a hero. The Executioner Waits is a modern tragedy in the most present sense: its changing choruses are spoken by and for plain people, in terms as actual as last week's events. But Author Herbst is no journalistic realist, no pamphleteer of Communism. Her concern for her characters is never political or moral: she never justifies or reviles them except through their own mouths and for their own private ends. Her objectivity results in a total effect almost alarmingly potent. Though her method eschews purple passages (the description...
...against any proposals to legalize birth control or liberalize divorce laws, had nothing to say publicly against lotteries. Their Church's attitude is that under proper circumstances gambling is not sinful. Indeed the Papal States used to run lotteries as do many Catholic nations today.* And to a realist there is slight moral difference between a cash lottery and a raffle such as many a church, Catholic and Protestant alike, employs to raise money for pious causes...
...exiled Austrian archduke and an Indian woman, Rico grew up in the jungles of a nameless Spanish-American country, turned bandit in his youth and became dictator in his manhood. A frank realist, he never hesitated to kill when it was necessary. He was pleased that the people said of him: "He is a man of business." His principle: "If in doubt, kill! Nor fear that you waste aught of value." His aim was to govern well; when he found that modernization went against the country's grain he benevolently preserved the status quo. He permitted the kind...
...months of the publication of Don Quixote's first part it was a popular success in Spain, but not until long after Cervantes' death was he acknowledged as a great writer by the more respectable members of his fraternity. "Only the lowly understood him and praised him." A realist to the end, Cervantes penned his farewell in the last book he wrote, Persiles y Sigismunda: "Goodbye to thanks, goodbye to compliments, goodbye to good friends. . . ." Though he was buried in a Trinitarian monastery at Madrid his grave is unmarked, unknown...
...involved in rounding up the big game catch of a jungle expedition. Despite the fact that the spontaneous reality of some of the scenes may be questioned, this film maintains a sustained interest until the end for the person who is admittedly a wild animal fan. Although the technical realist may be unconvinced by the well-photographed hand-to-hand encounters of Frank Buck with a giant python and king cobra in turn, such scenes may prove quite absorbing...