Word: realistically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Masefield is often more disagreeable. He is a realist and is temperamental about it. His profanity is revolting and largely because of this I would say he exhibits cheap realism. Shaw in one of his seenes gains all the effect of the use of profacity by merely having the speakers repeat the word "rotten", but Masefield simply swears,--to the extent that one becomes weary...
...Shaw Jeaves no doubt as to what he its be terms himself a dramatic realist. His works show the effects of his reading of Plato, for be desires that every one be made an aristocrat. He maintains that education has little to do with the matter of acquiring table manners, except dress, and that outward show which aristocracy presents. Every one should acquire these attributes according...
...whom one sees at the circus with his two boys, has written, by and large, over 100 plays. Many of them have been melodramatic thrillers in which the actors tore the scenery and heroes flung themselves valiantly before hissing villains. Mr Davis has now chosen to become a realist. Two seasons ago he wrote a grim drama called The Detour and was canonized by the critics. Last year his Icebound, a genuinely human picture of his native Maine folks, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His place among American dramatists is therefore assured, along with Eugene O'Neill...
...being admitted to the tight little island without special permission from the Foreign Office. Pavloff, being a citizen of Russia, necessarily travels under a passport granted by its government, but he is personally an anti-Bolshevik and takes no part in politics. The French consul was more of a realist, and the professor will probably land at Cherbourg and go home, but not via Edinburgh. Britain, and not Pavloff, will be the loser. Commenting on his trying experiences, Dr. Pavloff said he was going back to Russia, where there is "law and order...
Bourdelle, French " spiritual realist " sculptor, has been asked to design a war memorial in concrete, 25 x 10 meters, to be set against the rocks near Grenoble...