Word: realism
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Jones, together with Sidney Poitier, Earle Hyman and Harold Scott, are the four most gifted young Negro actors today--the first two excelling in modern realism, the latter pair possessed of sterling skill in classical styles...
Tracing the use of suggestive names from the morality plays to Mrs. Maleprop, Ebenezer Scrooge, and Christopher Newman, Levin pointed out that Shakespeare's Mistress Quickly ("quick lie") is part of a living tradition. He admitted, however, that "with he increase of realism and the decline of allegory, there is a tendency to leave the meaning a bit latent...
...asking for help in building the "bridges of reconciliation" between eastern and western Europe. The spontaneous approval roared back by the crowds predictably ruffled official Polish feelings. At a dinner given by Ambassador Cabot, Deputy Foreign Minister Josef Winiewicz proposed a toast reminding Kennedy of "the strict political realism of our links with Socialism and with the Soviet Union...
...George Catlin. In the 1830s he resolved to assemble a pictorial record of the last golden years of the Indians freely living their own lives. He rode across hundreds of miles of unmapped prairie, visited 48 tribes and painted 600 pictures. His Indian Boy is a triumph of photographic realism blended with psychological insight. There is a trace of bravado in the boy's stance, backed by ultimate bravery in the clenched right fist. Around the eyes and mouth is the faint hint of sadness of a boy fated never to roam and rule the land of his father...
...looks out his office window over a Civil War statue and creates dramatic characters that are no less concrete but nonetheless alive. Some people tell him that his meticulous realism is about that far behind the progress of modern playwriting...