Word: realism
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...arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis Cummings' heart-for-heart's-sake view's were, and are, intellectually unfashionable -not to mention untenable-in today's world. Modern poets usually come armed with shields of sinewy realism or are modishly cloaked in intellectual complexity...
Devilish God. As it becomes clear that Peredonov will never make school inspector, it is also evident that Peredonov's meanness is not merely savage comic realism but cosmic symbolism. Author Sologub. as a leader of the highbrow Symbolist and Decadent literary movements of the 18905. insisted that the moralistic realism of earlier Russian decades was dead. Art should be mystical, symbolic, fantastic. But in rejecting realism. Sologub rejected the real world too, believing, like the Manichaeans, that physical things are the creation of a devilish...
Other women writers bring out the best in her shrewd, sharp judgment. She displays a witchy admiration for the "tart effervescence" of Mary McCarthy, accurately noting that the cool, almost brutal realism of her sexual passages is light-years away from the passion-tinged descriptions of male writers. One notorious McCarthy story, she writes, "is about contraception in the way, for instance, that Frank Norris's The Octopus is about wheat. There is an air of imparting information-like whaling in Melville." Reviewing Simone de Beauvoir's prolix attack on male imperialism. The Second Sex, Hardwick pricks...
...despite its tradition of realism, modern American theater-stage, films and television-has been slow to grant Negroes a place. One in every ten Americans is Negro, yet most scripts call for no Negroes at all. "How can you have a play called Subways Are for Sleeping" protests Sammy Davis, "and not have Negroes in it? The subways are full of Negroes." Reluctance to cast Negroes has two chief sources. "Either the producers are worried about how the South will like it," Davis says, "or they're afraid to make a Negro a 'heavy' because they think...
...Thing. The maneuvers seemed almost as confusing as actual combat. At one point, the observing party headed by Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay had trouble even finding the fighting. A convoy of 59 trucks got lost on the Carolina roads. Guerrilla operations were carried out with startling realism. Several weeks ago, the guerrillas infiltrated the Carolina countryside, secured hideouts, persuaded civilians to act as sympathizers who would provide food, medical aid and other services. When the maneuvers began, more guerrillas parachuted into their areas, were greeted by civilian doctors that had been "won over." The Renloa guerrillas scored...