Word: realism
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...view of this simple realism, the extravagant newspaper stories which attacked General Marshall's shift fell flat...
...Said he last week: "I'm trying to learn the game as fast as I can. I'm very serious about it. I feel that my papers are potentially profitable. Believe me, I'm in this thing to stay." This attitude apparently accounted for shifts toward realism...
...rather frank realism which goes on just behind the eyes and the lines of this eager young couple is abetted by some excellent rawboned Western street scenes and by some unusually vivid uses of sound (coyotes, snores, a neighing horse) and camera (scrambled focus for excitement and intoxication) to startle and amuse. John Wayne manages, more toughly if less charmingly than Gary Cooper in his early days, to create a sort of Rocky Mountain Jean Gabin. Jean Arthur, who has the brunt of the comedy to handle, is one of the most attractive handlers in the business, but undermines some...
...home to the civilians. It certainly tries to tell just what is going on in jungle warfare. Perhaps it even sells a few Bonds. But "So Proudly We Hail", as was the case with the earlier "reality", "Bataan", appears to defeat its own purpose by its very realism...
Author Priestley's best-selling manipulations of sweetness and light (The Good Companions) have neither closed his mind nor cloyed his large public. Daylight on Saturday is a surprisingly successful blend of his new realism and his old sentiment. It reveals a picture of wartime England that will entertain the lighthearted, interest the thoughtful...