Word: realism
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Lincoln the President, by J. G. Randall, was finished by Richard N. Current after Randall died. Like the first three volumes, it was no reading delight, but it capped the only major life of Lincoln by an academic historian, one who was more interested in realism than in mythmaking...
When The Snake Pit appeared with a splash of acclaim in 1949, its brutal realism blinded the public eye and aroused a good deal of righteous indignation. Six years of national reflection on the inadequacy of mental hospitals has brought little reform. Hearsay from PBH Volunteers seems to refute accusations that the movie was more imaginative than truthful. Reconsideration shows that it has both qualities...
...child face. She no longer lives so one-sidedly, and is beginning to accept her weaknesses as well as her strengths. As a result, she makes fewer strict rules for herself and sets fewer standards for others. Her innocence of the world is warming to a womanly kind of realism...
...sense of grievance felt by the Arabs against the French. "If you could not have freedom, you could still have vengeance, and that was all anyone really wanted now." The setting alone lends special interest to the book, and Author Bowles brings the Moroccan locale to life with meticulous realism. If his cast of characters has a cosmetic blush that suggests not the novelist's but the embalmer's art, that is a quality which fans of Bowles's rather special fiction have long since learned to enjoy...
Across the room Augsburg's citizens, many of whom still have relatives and friends in East Germany, stream up to the stamp windows. And with a realism born of ten years' experience, they purchase not the refugee stamp--which pictures men and women fleeing west from the Iron Curtain--but the standard one portraying the cherubic face of Federal President Theodore Heuss...