Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whatever the lessons of the past seven months, we must be prepared to learn them and profit by them in a spirit of realism, keeping steadily before us what remains the constant purpose of British Foreign Policy-the maintenance of peace. We have nothing to reproach ourselves with, nothing to apologize...
...rate, this excessive elucidation insures that the right interpretation be given. Lois Hall is ideally supple for her part of the sculptress. When throbbing in response to some dramatic situation, her voice rises to a rather unpleasant shrillness, but what is lost in euphony is probably gained in realism. Paul Killiam, Jr. is splendid as one of the companion medical students, a primitive fellow with a rare good humor and a tremendous appetite for the frivolities. And so on through the rest in the cast: Isabella Gardner, John Flower, Alfonse Ossorio, Paul Sturges, and John Barnard; they're all uniformly...
...alumni, no matter how perfectly they conformed to the collegiate pattern of life in pre-diploma days, be expected to defend undergraduate realism. A year off the campus and the average alumnus is more apt to remember the good time he had a such and such Christmas formal, the weekend of the Purdue, game, or in the Mask & Wig show rather than the fact that during exam weeks he ordinarily lost ten pounds and annexed a few grey hairs. It is the same with college grads in a studio conference. Confessing no serious intent, they strive to put as much...
When one takes into consideration the natural tendency toward exaggeration for dramatic effect in presenting these characters, it is little wonder they appear as they do on the screen. Realism doesn't seem to have a place in a college picture. And for this reason college pictures always have been and, I am afraid, always will be designed to please the eye and ear and not provide food for cerebral meditation...
...figure is a fine example of late 13th century work, and sheds interesting light on the comparison of Spanish and French treatment of secular subjects. Although displaying most of the medieval tendencies toward identification, a trace of realism is shown in the closed eyes of the effigy, indicating death. The majority of French tomb figures are modelled with open eyes...