Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the findings of the conference was the suggestion recently launched by the Alumni Placement Service that manufacturers should give summer "try-outs" to men who plan to return for more study in the fall. The Service says that "such tryout experiences give a young man a does of realism and help him better make his final selection of a job" as well as giving the company time for "observation of a beginner's work before he is put on the permanent payroll
...realism of Kid Galahad was achieved not by hiring a real fighter to perform in it, as Max Baer did in The Prizefighter and the Lady, but by giving a course in pugilism to the unknown young Los Angeles actor who had been picked for the title role. Handsome Wayne Morris, 23, whose athletic activities at Los Angeles Junior College (see p. 44) had been confined to football, basketball and fencing, trained for a month before shooting started. In the picture, his fight for the heavyweight championship was far more strenuous than most real heavyweight contests. It lasted a week...
Packed with suspense that is an timely as it is exciting, "Mountain Justice", now showing at the Met, holds its audience engrossed from start to finish. With almost harrowing realism, it tells how the "Defiance of Youth against the old implacable law sometime results in tragedy...
Wheel of Fortune is a surprising book. It sets out like a society farce, develops into the psychological realism of a Stendhal novel, ends like a Dostoievskian drama. And the whole thing leaves an impression as unmistakably Italian as a plaster wall painted to look like marble. A tour de force of remarkable virtuosity, this story of a woman's disintegration will linger in readers' minds as a clever analysis but not a revelation...
...length. Last week Meyer Levin's The Old Bunch (964 pages) gave wrist-weary readers another hefty handful. Aside from actual weight, however, The Old Bunch has less in common with its swollen sisters than with such half-starved gutter rats as James Farrell's Studs Lonigan. Realism of the cheapest dye, Author Levin's tale of Jews in Chicago is not so much a chronicle as chronic narrative. Gentile readers (goyische Lezer to Author Levin) may find themselves oppressed at times by the heavy, strident Jewishness of the book's atmosphere, but once under...