Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Money, Old & New. Most conspicuous result of Chairman Kennedy's prime policy of blending the high spirit of reform with the realism of the market place was his famed new registration form for old-line companies. After consultation with practicing lawyers and accountants, it was promulgated last winter, promptly released a flood of corporate financing that is still rising (TIME, March 13). Commenting on this simplified form, Accounting Review declared: "The SEC has in one month set effective and, on the whole, reasonable standards for the [accounting] profession which years of futile committee work within professional societies have...
...like to read a family saga. Mazo de la Roche had made a phenomenal success with her Jalna books. Last year Faith Baldwin plunged into a set of serious novels tracing the development of a typical middle class family from its U. S. beginning to the present. Partly sober realism, partly sugary sentiment, American Family promptly became the best selling of all Faith Baldwin's many best sellers...
...Fate), "Robert Francis" (real name: Jean Godmé) follows his romantic bypath in the footsteps of Alain Fournier, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen. Critics will note a long gap between Author Francis and the men he trails, but readers who are sick & tired of painful realism may well find surcease in The Wolf at the Door...
...really a fairy story, Author Francis' tale is clothed in realism, but wanders into grotesque fancies that lie far from weekday life. Narrator of the story is Catherine, who tells her son this history of the childhood she spent in a Flanders farmhouse, in the years following the Franco-Prussian...
...legendary character of the old South, all chivalresque, julepy and magnolious, is still stoutly upheld by such loyal romanticists as Stark Young and Julia Peterkin, but its present reputation has been considerably damaged by the nightmare realism of William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Author Caldwell, particularly, has been almost wholly concerned with telling tales on a part of the South no Southerner ever boasts of-the poor white trash that clutters the South's backyards. Often he makes his tattered crackers the scarecrow-heroes of wildly ribald yarns, but almost as often they appear as the victims...