Word: realism
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...official policy toward literature has long been "socialist realism." Literature is expected not only to be inoffensive, but to actually contribute to the perfection of the workers' state. All decisions about literature are strictly political ones; there is no concern for art for its own sake...
...most influenced by Reinhold Niebuhr and Pat Boone, the style of The Combat Leader's Field Guide is derived primarily from Ernest Hemingway. Consider this passage from a section on probing for mines: "Echelon men 15 to 25 M to minimize casualties." This tone of taut realism is characteristic of the book. Its author, also anonymous, gives these instructions for testing for the presence of poison gas: "Nerve agents being quick killers, make test with detectors, then have 2 or 3 men unmask for 5 min.... If no symptoms, unmask...
...essence of life. The laughter of the audience reflects, by its rueful tone the accuracy of the film at many moments. This movie seems to have the cathartic effect that other foreign films aim for, but usually miss because of a lack of subtlety that tries to pass for realism. Restraint is evident here where it is often lacking in other pictures--the photography is not bizarre, but merely piercing, the characters are not extreme, but completely effective. Even the homosexuality of the by-gone actress, Marvis, is not a stumbling block, but a key-stone. I find it rather...
...creates and dissolves horizons, the landscape seems dreamily unreal. The reality of Ireland is special: it lies on a border region where tragedy and laughter, jollity and gloom, hell and the happy isles converge-and as such it may reflect human existence more truly than what usually passes for realism...
...rakes and harlots like acts in a play, or when he opened the innards of Bedlam and Gin Lane, he caught the drama of England's lower depths as no other artist had. These works thrust upon English art a sense of flesh and blood, a spirit of realism from which it drew sustenance until sentimentality deluged the land in Victoria's day. But back of Hogarth's raw dramas was a tender man. No one who did not love children could have painted a little girl, with her plump red cheeks and faintly wistful gaze...