Word: realism
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...classicism as we know it is reserved for the ending and two early scenes in Mudd's home, in order to create a sense of harmony and domestic tranquillity prior to his imprisonment. The rest of the film is quite different, including also a stylistic foreshadowing of detached neo-realism (the collapse of the first doctor), also of modern optical effects (the focus-pulling from dead Lincoln's face to the texture of the veil placed over it). Ford's stylistic vocabulary is limitless, his films beyond categorization...
...reduced situation prepares for a direct conflict between them, but at the same time puts them in a more obvious relation to their real surroundings. The purity of this dramatic situation, direct conflicts between men and men's immediate relation to the real world, is the essence of realism...
...choose the rules of the game, and choice is composition. Ideally, the effect of Cage's esthetic is to obliterate any distinction between the romantic notion of inspiration and drab exigencies of everyday life. Cage's music is in a sense everyone's music. It is the simplest possible realism...
...Trust in the Lord." Yet literary means, like wars and prices, tend to escalate. In Bullet Park, trying to cope with up-to-date exurban alarums and filial excursions-including creeping despair and the generation gap -has widened farther than ever the consistent gap between Cheever's surface realism and the bizarre events and distorted perspectives of the moral allegories he pursues...
...discussion of what should be a university's functions in relation to the inner cities and its problems--matters touched on at Harvard of late by the Wilson Report and by many of the students. Harding cites--in a fine phrase--the need on campus for "a rhythm of realism and romanticism." He believes that "if we are to remain in a world of college credits, students should be getting credits for going out and learning how people live. But this means we're talking about a new kind of education, for the insights of the ADC [Aid to Dependent...