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Campton's A Smell of Burning and Memento Mori diverge from realism to comic fantasy. They are short and slight in form, and amiably gruesome in tone. Both are clever jobs, but each is composed of one joke, not a very funny joke at that, spun out far too thinly...
...characters now very nearly extinct. None loved a lord more dearly than Ouida, and, mounted on the plush Pegasus of her imagination, she wrote to hounds with the best of them. She was a hopeless romantic-but she had the sense to know it. "I do not object to realism in fiction," she wrote, "but the passion flower is as real as the potato...
Calm Focus. Shrewd and impenetrably affable, Dulles talked with calm realism. Let's get things in focus, was his theme. One and only one basic, unifying interest had brought members together: mutual defense against their Soviet Communist neighbor. Dulles argued that the U.S. could do more for the Baghdad nations by remaining outside the pact than by joining. The Baghdad Pact commits its members only to "cooperate for their security and defense." Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, Dulles pointed out, the U.S. is pledged to send its armed forces, on request, to the aid of any Middle East nation...
...peaks of U.S. art, 1958. It suffers because many of the best refused to show with the crowd, but nevertheless it displays a competent level of workmanship. Said Juror Adolpb Gottlieb: "The show does constitute a cross section of contemporary American art, divided about fifty-fifty between abstraction and realism. It's good to have a big show, especially in New York. The worst and the best are excluded. What is hanging now is in the in-between level. The level is surprisingly good, if we consider how many bad pictures we saw before the show was selected...
James Jones is the Stanley Kowalski of U.S. letters. Bulked into the sweaty T shirt of latter-day realism, he stirs raw sex, raw talk, raw emotions and raw ideas in a crude vat of the rawest home-brewed English. In From Here to Eternity, this concoction helped put across Novelist Jones's abrasive vision of a little-known area of U.S. life, the peacetime Regular Army. Steamy with sex, Some Came Running may hit the same one-armed bandit of bestselling success, but it is more than one-third longer (some 700,000 words in all) than king...