Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gossip and eavesdropping, small skeletons in large closets. It fails to be drab because, at 70, its people are still kicking their heels, raising their voices, cocking their ears. They talk ridiculous bromides, but with passion ; they make absurd gestures, but with feeling. They are for the most part real, and for the most part funny...
...City. Almost since the year of the university's founding (1857) University of Chicago social scientists have watched Chicago grow from a Midwestern town to a sprawling metropolis. They have studied numerous facets of the city -real estate, money markets, stock trading, light & power, men's clothing, furniture, bakeries, pottery, industrial location, voting habits, youth delinquency, Negro families, etc. Perhaps Chicago has not yet profited much from this scrutiny, but it may do so eventually,* and so may many another city...
Violinist Jascha Heifetz suggested that U. S. concert audiences should hiss whenever they feel like it: "American audiences are too standardized . . . too timid to express their real opinion of an artist...
...Thin Man formula (exciting murder mystery plus fast, racy dialogue plus an equable, wisecracking, Scotch-bibbing married couple plus real people in a weird jumbling together of underworld and overworld) was good for several more workings...
...solid buildings, the clear pigment, and the clean spaciousness within which each part of the painting exists, are the work of a master painter. No element in Hopper's piece is created "in vacuo"; the houses, mountains, and the water are each related to the other in a very real sense, yet we are not conscious of any obvious attempt on the part of the artist to bring these elements together by means of labored and intricate composition. We find no straining at the leash of any one part to break into prominence and destroy the equilibrium which exists...