Word: realism
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...well ask, why tell the story of the war at all? If it is to be told, let us have the whole. Let the young not be misled." Like Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Becker's book explores the whole of war with realism and irony. Becker's hero, astounded at man's inhumanity, rages superbly against the dying of the light...
...members, except for a few adult mentors and heroes, are almost all young people under twenty-five. Obviously, they are not conservatives or liberals, for whom objective realism is nuclear deterrence and phased withdrawal from the War. Nor are they black militants or members of any faction of SDS, for whom the only real human suffering is the tangible oppression of the Third World and the working class...
...Balzac often use Paris as their setting and romanticize urban life. Both have broad visions of radically different assortments of people. Both perceive the absurdity and ?pettiness, but above all the glory of la comedic humaine. They each indulge in totally irrelevant detail, which produces an overall effect of realism. Both have a taste for the melodramatic and both believe that improbable chance plays a large role in the lives of real people...
...Shift to Realism. Moneymen seemed relieved that Germany would no longer try to keep the mark at the unrealistically low price that had allowed the country to pile up enormous trade surpluses to the detriment of the economies and currencies of other nations. As the mark rose, the French franc dipped, then climbed back at week's end. Traders saw new hope that the combination of the recent 12.5% French devaluation and an eventual German revaluation would add up to almost a 20% shift in the official values of the two currencies-making the difference in their formal exchange...
...single film could justify the entire film festival, then this year that film is certainly Ermanno Olmi's One Fine Day. It harks back in some ways to the tradition of postwar Italian realism and its masters, among them Rossellini and De Sica. Yet Olmi's films seem more precise, more tightly constructed, more acute. He has a film maker's sense of composition and a novelist's sense of rhythm and construction. The plot of One Fine Day is much like an anecdote by Chekhov. A middle-aged Milanese advertising executive (Brunette Del Vita...