Word: realism
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Ignazio Silone, author of "Bread and Wine," will deliver a lecture on contemporary French thought entitled "After Neo Realism: the Nihillsts and the Idolators" at 8:30 p.m. this evening in Boylston Lecture Hall...
...pimp, and so it goes. Unfortunately, the play does not go-either toward social comment or domestic disaster, or toward that uncommon probing of the commonplace, the drab and the degraded that unveils an expanse of spirit in a waste of shame. All that remains is slice-of-life realism, which an inept director and cast turn into a slice at life that misses by a Manchester mile...
...earthy humor of his hero, a perky little picaro (scalawag) who became the Huck Finn of his century. Aleman, Cervantes, Lesage, Defoe and Fielding were inspired to imitation, and today Lazarillo is acclaimed as the prototype of the picaresque novel, as a handsel of the arriving era of realism in European literature...
...sold an enormous triptych, Trench, to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne for 10,000 gold marks, or nearly $3,000. Carrying on as lance bearer of the Neue Sachlichkeit (the New Objectivity), Dix went on to influence Max Beckmann and Georg Grosz with his sharp-edged, magical realism that applied the techniques of the old masters to the social misery of the anarchic Weimar Republic. With Hitler's rise, Dix was ousted from his professorship in art at the Academy of Art in Dresden, forbidden to paint, finally pressed into the potbellied Volks-sturm, a sort of last...
...open letter published by several newspapers--e.g., by the Washington Post on March 13--and urging President Kennedy to 'halt U.S. military intervention in South Vietnam' paints a picture in black and white, colors more compatible with the 'socialist realism' of Communist propaganda than with the objectivity of a free press...