Word: realism
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...magazine post-war prose suffers the same division, except it's a gap between old and new. The old: the grand-children of Twain and illegitimate sons of Hemingway who have come to confuse the simple sentence with literature and the monosyllable with wisdom--the crude words and rugged realism of men's magazines and college sophomores. This species of literature is dying along with the subconscious-childhood reverie. The new: Jack Kerouac's bastardization of the picar-esque tradition, the hipster vocabulary, the mystic meaningless words attached to a generation, where motion is meaning and stasis is death...
...earlier judgment, said the committee, was the fault of Stalin, who was listening to such notorious tin ears as Beria, Molotov and Malenkov. Presumably, the "socialist realism" of Shostakovich's, Khachaturian's and Prokofiev's more recent works also helped clear the composers' names. But for the younger generation of Soviet composers, nothing had changed. In a burst of gratitude to the party, Shostakovich, 51, and Khachaturian, 55, promptly approved a decree criticizing "unhealthy trends" in recent musical works. To disassociate himself from the dangerous moderns, third-rate Composer Vano Muradeli, 50, chimed in with...
...President Eisenhower sent the 1959 budget to Congress, and it showed a slender surplus of $500 million. Last week Budget Director Maurice H. Stans guardedly forecast a 1959 deficit "in the general magnitude of $8 billion-$10 billion, according to present tentative estimates." But Washington skeptics see more realism in the red-ink estimate issued by the staff of the Congressional Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation: a dizzying $11.1 billion. And even the Joint Committee's forecast may err on the cheerful side. It assumes...
Despite such bows to Soviet realism in the Moscow Theater's first new Orchard since 1947, the production came to London with the blessing of Chekhov's Actress-Widow Olga Knipper Chekhova. Moreover, Londoners, to whom Chekhov is as familiar as Shaw or Sheridan, seemed to approve. The first-night audiences -including such personages as Defense Minister Duncan Sandys and Lady Churchill -gave the group nine curtain calls. And one sack-clad miss added the awed, ultimate compliment: "You don't need to speak Russian to understand...
Reflecting the academy's staid taste for realism, the painting that interrupted tea is a fool-the-eye portrait of a pretty girl. The artist who painted it is a onetime photo-reconnaissance officer named John Merton. He sat his subject in a dentist's chair, made 100 three-dimensional photographs of her, worked 1,500 hours while playing Bach, Beethoven and Mozart on his hifi. The girl is Lady Dalkeith, 26, a former fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister. In 1953's flossiest British wedding, attended by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret...