Word: realism
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When war came, with human monsters flying through the air, Britain forgot the monster in the lake. The Italians remembered, though. They lent a touch of color and realism to one of their famed communiqués by announcing that the monster had been bombed and sunk during an Italian raid on Scotland. To this calumny the monster retorted by merrily roiling, once more, the waters of Loch Ness...
...sequences bound together by straight documentary interludes, highlighted them with perhaps the finest spoken commentary (Paul Robeson) ever recorded on celluloid and an effective musical score (Marc Blitzstein) accompanying the Robeson songs. The result, better as episodes than as a whole movie, is a shocking, stinging picture whose realism could never have been achieved in soft-stepping Hollywood...
Professor Spencer said that since "most people are facing the present war with more realism than they did before," the chances of intense disillusion, and correspondingly, of serious cynicism are considerably lessened...
...concert halls and art galleries where the theories and developments of technique are constantly on display, the history of the drama is a cloudy one to most theatre-goers. Only in reading old plays can the drama lover understand how the theatre has arrived at its present state of realism, verging now towards presentationalism. But reading a play does not recapture the style of the acting or of the settings or give any of the flavor that might have made it a great success in its day and a significant milestone in theatrical history...
...some, realism so simple may well seem as devastating as frost in a hothouse for orchids. But such people may take comfort in the thought that Professor Spykman is not infallible, that the cult of realism has its own limitations and coldbloodedness leads to its own kind of distortion. To others, tired of statesmanship by euphemism and eye-catching phonies, Spykman's plain talking seems a bracing corrective...