Word: realism
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...made an attempt to reverse the drift three years ago with an encyclical proclaiming that "modern art should be given free scope in the due and reverent service of the church and the sacred rites, provided that [the artists] preserve a correct balance between styles, tending neither to extreme realism nor to excessive symbolism . . ." Last week he welcomed 300 artists and art authorities from 23 countries to a Rome conference on religious art, and told them more about what he meant by "provided...
...that every seasoned combat unit has at some time, or many times, experienced, the one where the odds are too great. Brave Company ends with such an attack, and Wilson's description of it can stand as a document. Writers of realistic war novels, most of whose realism is the product of imagination, can find out what is missing from their books by reading Brave Company...
...Chicago group's imaginative approach has been born of necessity. Lacking big budgets, elaborate equipment and big-name talent, they are forced to shortcut the elaborate. They specialize in what they call "simplified realism" and "ad-lib drama." By banning studio audiences they can use the four walls of every set; short on cameras, booms and overhead trolleys, they never switch from one camera to another without a good reason...
...name analysts were also working overtime. Concentrated in Manhattan and Washington, they range from Mutual's Gabriel Heatter, who dispenses folksy anecdotes and emotion-charged speeches in a voice ballooning with sepulchral tone, to ABC's Elmer Davis, who brings a dry and often witty realism to his clearly labeled speculations about what's behind the news...
Wrote Critic Eric Newton: "These American pictures catch the eye in a flash, but they are empty." Said the Sunday Observer: "This term 'symbolic realism' is found to embrace the phosphorescent skeleton paintings of Pavel Tchelitchew; a horrific problem picture by Alton Pickens, of the crowning of a dyed ape . . . and Henry Koerner's surrealist picture [TIME, March 27] of a barber playing the violin to his shrouded customers and a monkey-an entertainment which no doubt explains the increased cost of hairdressing in American establishments. Most of these paintings have been worked over again and again...