Word: realisme
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...large room, whose walls are of rough, heavy plaster; the next is the stronghold of a smuggler band; and the last an ancient, tropical garden. The color scheme of the sets becomes more striking, until the garden furnishes a brilliant climax in bright orange and violet. Restrained realism is the purpose throughout...
...this handicap of words ill-fitted to music which damaged Mme. Matzenauer's rendition of Schubert's "Erlkonig" when she sang it with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, four years since. At any rate, Miss Braslau far overleaped it last Sunday, singing the song, as she did, with a realism too intense to be excelled. In other numbers of Schubert she triumphed as well. Especially did she impart to "Gretchen am Spinnrade," the soft sheen, the delicate shadings, which the composer intended. She succeeded not so well with some of the other numbers of her program not because of consistently...
...without thrills. Mrs. Loring has made the most of that opportunity, and avoiding the conventionalities of most novels of the West, has told her story originally and with effect. The fact that she considers that if she has told a story well she can let psychology and realism go is not the least of the merits of "The Trail of Conflict...
...stand out at all. This side the modern historians neglect or ignore. The successors to Parkman or Prescott are-turning their attention to other fields. What comes in to fill the gap is historical fiction. An inspired novelist like Scott, building a "casing of romance upon a core of realism", as Brander Mathews remarked, with a historian's mind for detail, and the creative imagination of an artist; should be prescribed for reading in history as much s in literature. The actual order of events may be slightly distorted, but the picture painted of the times leaves a more accurate...
Weary of living in hall bedrooms, wearing second hand clothes and thumbing ledgers; of fame that comes through new filing systems and of love on a park bench; weary of the present day "realism" and all that it implies, it is pleasant to find a book that deals, virllely enough, with beauty and gallantry--and villainy. There is more than enough of present friction that tells us of our own civilization and mechanics, when God knows we see too much of it day by day; more than enough of the "romance of business" which is no romance. Inevitably are there...