Word: realism
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Nehru, who last visited Washington in 1956, complained only a few years ago that he was "flat and stale." But Nehru who will be 72 next week, has lately radiated energy and good health. His ivory-tower idealism has also been pierced by a new sense of realism in world affairs. Russia's violence and Red China's aggressions have left him no illusions about Communism's world ambitions. Thanks largely to able U.S. ambassadors, including Kennedy-appointed John Kenneth (Affluent Society) Galbraith, Nehru has gained new understanding of U.S. aims. Says...
Sisley gradually moved away from this Courbet-like realism, and the work he did in the 1870s has usually been considered his best. In the Aqueduct at Marly his palette was open, his brush light and sure. Sisley never played rough with nature, nor did he like to intrude too far upon its secrets. While Monet atomized the sun, Sisley let it wash gently over his scenes, neither searing nor dazzling...
Anything but an angry young exercise in social realism, The Caretaker is a study of the human condition at the outer limit of endurance, both funny and tragic, paradoxically baffling and plausible, gifted with the poet's touch of universality, and turned out in colloquial dialogue that is breathtakingly cadenced and exact. It has been interpreted as everything from an allegory of the cold war to a modern view of Christ, man, and Satan, but unlike so much of the so-called avant-garde, it is thoroughly alive on Level One: the stage...
...Brothers is to discover a complex, human statement that goes beyond vignette or myth to the difficult realm of life. Occasionally marred by over-emphasized symbolism and over-played brutality, Rocco subjects one to the ordeals of its creator, and in so doing escapes the usual pitfalls of social realism. It is as if Luchino Visconti (who wrote and directed) were, in one grueling gasp, saying "No, not all poor people are victimized saints; not all city life; yes, tragedy results from human weakness and conflicting desires, including the desire to hurt others...
...Life, by Bernard Malamud. Without the allegorical overtones of the author's previous books (The Natural, The Assistant), this novel of an Eastern intellectual's losing battle with the muscular positivism of a Western land college sometimes trips on its own realism, is nevertheless notable for its tender, Chekhovian quality...