Word: realism
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...subject's essential humanity. It is exactly because Forster can judge the 'business people' as he does, and because he can judge the lower classes so without sentimentality, that he can deal firmly and intelligently with his own class...." Says Trilling: "So much moral realism is rare enough to be a surprise...
...which Miss Bergman has a lot. And she knows how to use it. Hollywood's talented people have developed marvelous skill in a tradition as rigid and elaborate as Javanese dancing, and almost as remote from life. Miss Bergman comes of a tradition in which an interest in realism, in the huge and various wealth of actual life, is as natural to a good actress as to a good novelist...
...with a clarity and detachment not common to radio newscasting. His voice was believable-a happy departure from the standard radio announcer-commentator voice, which suggests that its owner has been thickly padded with heavy cream. The rest is up to Baldwin's listeners. If they like his realism-in contrast to the bombast and theatrics of scores of commentators-he has a new career. If they do not like it, he still has a wide reputation for professional learning, personal acuteness and balance...
Rockwell's popularity is not hard to fathom. His pictures are never self-sufficient as painting; they nearly always tell a story. Moreover, he constantly achieves, with no sacrifice of conscientious sincerity, that compromise between a love of realism and the tendency to idealize which is one of the most deeply grained characteristics of the American people. He has a born eye for the face which combines individualism with typicality, a hairline intuition for the gentling (some would say falsification) which will make it most broadly appealing, a quick and simple love-richly shared with his audience-for home...
...Francis Spellman were promoting a rapprochement, his activity would stem from realism. In postwar Europe, home of 220,000,000 Roman Catholics, or two-thirds of the Church's world flock, Russia will play a considerable role. Further, Soviet influence will probably be dominant in the Balkans, where the Roman and Orthodox Churches share sway. The Vatican and the Kremlin may well find their affairs somewhat mixed up together...