Word: realism
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...There is a chance now to return to the native tradition of practical realism, to that mixture of tradition and progress which the Prime Minister gave as his political philosophy eighteen months ago. There was a hope at that time that the injection of Mr. Churchill's robust practical sense would turn the Conservative Party away from the Brummagem neo-feudalism of its recent years to the Disraelian tradition of constructive popular and progressive realism, and make it a worthy member of a national partnership. But it is not Mr. Churchill that has captured the Conservative machine; it would...
...king, but he is often too tense to give the illusion of reality. His passions are towering but never quite convincing. On the other hand. Judith Anderson, in the equally difficult role of Lady Macbeth, the highly ambitions but not naturally bloodthirsty queen, has a quality of realism that Evans lacks. The passionate scenes where she goads Macberth on to his crimes and reviles him for his weakness, are topped off by the famous sleep-walk ag scene, which is played with touching pathos. The honors for this show go first to Miss Anderson, and then to Margaret Webster...
...girls not only stand out as distinct individuals but also mature in the course of the volume. At points the intimate realism in describing Flip's artistic ambitions, her crush on Professor Brooks Creighton, and her feeling of estrangement from the life at home, approaches the bitter dissection of college life in Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel"-though Miss Carrick's approach lacks his sweeping inclusiveness and turgid power. Her polished style and delicate portrayal temperament are more in the urbane manner of Willa Cather. Only the concluding chapter betrays a novice hand. The threads of the plot, unsnarled...
...will flock like wild geese to see a well-drawn picture of a roseate spoonbill's rump sticking out of a swamp. And these pictures were unusual, not only for the meticulous exactitude with which they depicted the spreading wings of buffleheads, warblers and herons, but for the realism with which they reproduced the iridescent sheen of their plumage. Painted in thin oil paint on specially processed illustration board, the portraits glowed like old Chinese lacquer...
...Hollywood to a later column, I am afraid that Broadway has paid even scantier attention to hot music than the film capital. But at least, the stage has not tried to commercialize all music as the movies insist on doing. It would seem that the greater powers of realism, within limits, and of characterization which the theatre still possesses would offer an opportunity to tell a convincing story in which something of the essence of jazz might be reflected. The great obstacle, of course, has been the inclusion of jazzmen, obviously not the best actors in the world...