Word: realism
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...Twists. The war made horror trite and started emptying the Grand Guignol's seats. Another blow: the theater's chief playwright, Andre ("Prince of Terror") de Lorde, died (in bed) at the age of 90. No new twists in torture or tricks of realism-e.g., "blood" that coagulates as it cools-could lure the crowds back. Even worse, the sounds of skulls being crushed and bodies plopping into acid vats began drawing guffaws instead of gasps. Things got so bad that couples who took the curtained boxes in the rear of the house looked to themselves rather...
Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy, and John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy, interpreted the value and nature of religion from the respective points of view of humanism and realism last night before a crowd of nearly 300 at the Adams House Forum...
Wild defined his "realism" as the conviction that we live in a "world of objects which exists independently of man" and the belief that "there is a real right and wrong independent of human opinions...
Speaking on "Humanism, Realism, and Religion," the professors will examine humanism and realism as approaches to religious truth. Wild will take the position that there is a possibility of revealed religious truths, and Aiken will probably say that all knowledge is based on direct human experience, according to Forum Chairman Raymond E. Zelder...
Moviemaker Rossen, a short, chunky man of 41, is also expert at a harsher realism: the art of getting your own way in Hollywood. By combining talent with a tough-mindedness born of his rough & tumble boyhood on Manhattan streets, Rossen has won the scenaristis goal of controlling his own picture right through to the final editing...