Word: realism
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...Raisin in the Sun. Tenement realism about family life in Chicago's black belt bursts out in a writhing, vital mess...
...towards a questionable goal. In fact, it may well contain the most personal writing Purdy has ever done. Yet, it lacks the richness of character and incident that made Malcolm so spectularly good and does not convince us of its basic truthfulness. Though Purdy may later combine its measured realism and its moving, if sentimental, warmth, with the bizarre texture of Malcolm, I question if it will actually help him on to more fertile fictional subjects than those of Malcolm...
...Truffaut, unlike Ingmar Bergman, does not resort to the surrealistic and the bizarre in emphasizing his meaning. The unfortunate is treated with naive gentleness and the psychological and symbolic intricacies that one comes to expect in director-dominated films is notably absent. Pictorial eloquence is achieved through simplicity and realism rather than stagey effects...
...Scout. Mother was a writer too, the author of Life in the Iron Mills, a notable piece of pioneer realism; Father was a newsman who from 1893 to 1904 edited the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Neither of them seems to have guessed what was wrong with their son, and indeed the trouble was not obvious. Dick as a boy was anything but a sissy. He loved to fight, hated school. At 18 he entered Lehigh University, promptly failed chemistry but made himself the freshman class hero by taking on twelve sophomores singlehanded. He also became a star athlete-and flunked...
...Raisin in the Sun (Columbia) is essentially a writhing, vital mess of tenement realism. Unfortunately, in this film translation of her 1959 Broadway hit. Scenarist Lorraine Hansberry apparently felt obliged to sprinkle the mess occasionally with Mammy's own brand of brown sugar, douse it frequently with the skim milk of human kindness that too often passes for social concern, and then serve it all up as a sort of pablum for progressives. Even so, the mixture makes pretty strong medicine for a society afflicted with what the author calls "acute ghettoitis...