Word: realism
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Everything but Mammy. The Song of Bernadette lacks the razor-edged realism, the urgent poetry, the freshet-like creative vitality of great cinema or great religious vision. Sometimes its too high cinematic and religious gentility betrays itself awkwardly, as in the efforts of the cast to say maman (French for "mamma"), which is pronounced practically every way except mammy. But within its limits, most of The Song of Bernadette is reverent, spiritually forthright, dignified. The photography is continuously elegant. Most of the cast (especially Gladys Cooper as a Mistress of Novices) plays with unusual soberness and intensity...
...minute Norway was free, and let the people choose new leaders, it set a stiff standard of conduct for homeless governments. Last week a distinguished Norwegian in Exile, Carl J. Hambro, president of Norway's Parliament, added another page to his country's wartime record of realism. Said Hambro...
...family addicted to quarrels and adorned "with quirks; the other half describes the punctured-and-repaired romance of two outsiders. And to his two stories that fail to intertwine Mr. Johnson adds two moods that refuse to coalesce. The World's Full of Girls is sometimes comedy, sometimes realism...
When Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt spoke jointly to the world their statement on the post war future was an extraordinary one. It was either meaningless-or almost Pentecostal. They did not use the language of realism, of balances of power, of geopolitics. They used language common to humanity but unusual for statesmen: "We came here with hope and determination. We leave here, friends in fact, in spirit and in purpose...
...Realism" about the U.S. position in international affairs percolated down to the conservative National Association of Manufacturers last week. Attracted by the theory that in internationalism lies the best future protection for American self-interest, the N.A.M.'s postwar committee presented a program that would have created a sensation in so-called hardheaded business circles as recently as two years...