Word: realism
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...Heart sharply fails. It mingles two such general problems as race and rehabilitation to produce the most special of stories-one that calls less for earnestness than intensity. It is a story to be treated, if at all, in terms of tragic irony rather than realistic protest. As realism, the play can no more achieve an artistic resolution than it can supply a practical answer. As realism, it also suffers a good deal from very seldom seeming real. Author Reines is always too conscious of his social issues, too ready with a speech. What is most disastrous...
...Patton believed in God . . . [His] style was rough, but he combined idealism and realism. He talked to God as if he admired Him. He let God into his inmost secret heart, and recognized his own human frailty...
...Dear to My Heart (Walt Disney; RKO Radio), a sugary version of Sterling North's novel about an Indiana backwoods boyhood, is short on realism but long on entertainment. Jeremiah (Bobby Driscoll) and his little black lamb are good for a few laughs and tears, but the story is mainly useful as an excuse for Burl Ives's ballads and Walt Disney's cartoons...
...still the only book of any note which describes any part of the recent war through German eyes. Whether it is historically accurate in every detail is open to question, but the fact remains that it presents the Wagnerian holocaust of the battle for Stalingrad with the pitiless realism of a newsreel camera and yet the subtlety of a skilled playwright...
...England. It is a moderately successful blend of Hollywood histrionics and actual combat films from World War II. Its producers made a sincere effort to mix the two elements. The combat footage was used as a core for the story, rather than dragged in as a touch of "realism." The all-male cast is given convincing all-male dialogue, and there is a painless minimum of comic relief. Above all, there is skillful exploitation of the fierce beauty of aerial battle photography...