Word: realism
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...mosaics of colored earth. The temples rose in staged towers much as did the Tower of Babel, and each formed a kind of artificial mountain-a steppingstone by which the gods could commute to earth. But above all, the Sumerians were a kingdom of sculptors who, in seesawing between realism and abstraction, seem almost modern...
...showing four goats chasing about in a circle gradually was transformed, in later work, into an abstract Maltese cross. On the other hand, early statues of gods merely suggested the figure-the face being left out as if the artists feared to trespass farther-but then gradually moved toward realism. Kings and high priests were realistically portrayed, but ordinary people placed stylized figures of themselves in temples as stand-in worshippers...
...public, Ferhat Abbas and the F.L.N. have demanded immediate withdrawal of the French army from Algeria, prompt independence, and unquestioned control by the rebels. Privately, they spoke with more realism and greater moderation last week, frankly admitting that some sort of transition period must come before freedom. How would the F.L.N. deal with the 1,000,000 Europeans islanded among Algeria's 10 million Moslems? "We would like to integrate them into the state," insists an F.L.N. spokesman. "After all, they are more Algerian than French...
...Isak Dinesen, 75, has spent the 27 years of her writing life routing the brute realities of the 20th century from her prose. Minute in output but masterful in style and content, Storyteller Dinesen (Seven Gothic Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny) pursues gothic romance in preference to realism, the aristocratic spirit above democratic camaraderie, fate before fact. She is Denmark's finest living writer and one of the world's best. No less a fan than Ernest Hemingway told his 1958 Nobel Prize audience that the award should have gone to Isak Dinesen...
Another emphasis this year is on realism, from talking dolls with a vocabulary bigger than some of the little girls who will cradle them to Aurora's 1960-model electric-powered cars. Scaled down to 2 in. in length, the cars can be raced around a miniature track, need a deft touch on the controls to keep them from flipping over. Gilbert makes a bigger, stock-car racing set. Sales of multi-detailed plastic hobby kits are burgeoning, enable boys and girls to produce in miniature everything from auto engines to a transparent Visible Woman, complete with interchangeable parts...