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...Only No. 1. Such changes come slowly. Harvard Law refused to accept women students until 1950. The school is still reluctant to concede that it failed to lead the most recent major movement in the law. Legal realism-the sociological observation that judges make law rather than find it-was nurtured at Columbia and Yale in the '30s. Though Harvard Law Dean Roscoe Pound was a leading sociological scholar, his colleagues did not follow. Griswold ("the Griz"), who has been in the dean's chair since 1946, has made a determined effort to press once again into...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE: THE EVOLUTION OF GENIUS, by Winifred Gerin. This biography of the most prolific and active of the Bronte sisters plumbs the sources of Charlotte's strength (her realism) and weakness (sentimental romanticism...
...also does a good deal more than talk. His actions, like his speeches, are based on a philosophy of political and economic realism that he unabashedly calls "Bourguibism." Bourguibism is shaped by the belief, he explains in the Cartesian style that he acquired in elite French schools, that "no domain of terrestrial life must escape man's power of reason." Ever since the French left him to rule Tunisia in 1956, Bourguiba has been trying to apply reason to nation building. He has not always succeeded, but there are increasing signs of more success than failure...
Chopped Liver. In Virginia Woolf, Sandy played a drunken child bride with stomach-turning realism and cannily turned the part into that of an anemic ant asserting itself against dragons. "Sandy," Co-Star Elizabeth Taylor says overgraciously, "made chopped chicken out of me-or chopped chicken liver, which is even worse." In Up the Down Staircase, she persuasively demonstrates the importance of being earnest amid the cynicism and bureaucracy of big-city schools. In her most affecting scene, she reaches unreachable kids by getting them to relate their time to the opening lines of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities...
Half comedy, half drama, Flim Flam is really two films that, superimposed, tend to cancel each other out. The drama tries for realism, indicts mankind for the universal greed and gullibility upon which parasites like the Flim Flam Man prosper. But the actors who play his prey all deliver caricatures instead of portraits in a gallery of outlandish Southern yahoos such as never dwelt outside Dogpatch...