Word: realism
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...Flaherty's romantic heat is well-tempered with chilly realism. Madden is fighting the English not so much for the noble cause of independence as because he hero-worships his company commander and feels "liberated" by complete surrender "to the authority of a leader...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...
Guttuso was quite happy about the Italian cinema and the Communist contribution thereto. He was disturbed, however, by the state of painting and sculpture. "We must have something that all can understand, some realism, but at the same time it must be something artistic-not anything like a Coke advertisement or the statues of the Sacred Heart...
...himself spent four years in the Navy, part of the time as executive officer of the destroyer-minesweeper Southard. His aboard-ship scenes have a sharp, detailed reality that few of the army novelists have been able to give to their battlefield passages. No prude, he manages to achieve realism without obscenity, is perhaps the first World War II novelist in the U.S. with enough maturity to realize that four-letter words are "good-humored billingsgate . . . and not significant." That Author Wouk has absolute control of the Caine's little world will be granted by anyone who has seen...