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Into the debate on the post-war world, amply charged with theory and speculation, hard-bitten U.S. Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall last week injected words of caution and realism. Said he, before the august Academy of Political Science...
...Realism Central Point...
Divergence between the two opinions will probably center around the definition of the word "realistic," said a Council official last night. "Sorokin has very definite ideas of realism in post-war organization," the same official added, "and they do not coincide with those of Salvemini...
Today Marc Chagall says of surrealism "Not for me." A hater of realism as well, he refuses to be joined by any artistic school. He will not even discuss his own work. "Monsieur," he says in his dense Vitebsk French (he speaks no English), "l'art est comme l'amour. If your wife is ugly, you do not talk about her looks. If she is beautiful, they speak for both...
...into a tree. True, the play was imperfectly written and directed. But the important point if that the audience was incapable of fulfilling the basic demand of the play, even had it been well done. Technical advances are not yet great enough to perform the tree trick with sufficient realism. It was an unfamiliar idea, an impossible idea. Therefore they could not imagine it, even for one evening. The play failed because the audience failed...