Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the fact that "All Good Americans" goes very sour in creating a lot of hackneyed characters whose Third Avenue realism and happy-go-lucky American hearts of gold have long since been outlined even from the movies, the good American types are nevertheless all real people; and even if you have seen them many times before, it is not painful to see them again, especially if they don't take themselves seriously, as they don't at the Plymouth...
...romantics of the moment what solitude and the noble savage were to their prototypes a century and a half ago. It is far from that to those who are really working to bring it about, and I, for one should welcome any expression at Harvard of their realism. Mr. Strauss' "Of Harvard Bondage" is written four or five times in the first week of every composition course, especially English A. It contains a number of amiably generalized complaints about the intellectual apathy of the undergraduates and about their insulation from experience. Their novelty perished with the seventeenth century. A review...
...telling them that "it is useless for me to remain here for months unless the attitude (of the various delegations) changes." Disheartening as is this indication of the inflammatory material waiting for a fire-bug, it is nonetheless pleasing to see Mr. Henderson take on the unaccustomed garb of realism; he wears it with the surprising air of a tweeded sophomore, but that he wears is at all is enough...
...medal with two sides, and that it would be quite as reasonable for us to boast, with the Tartars of old, that we have no civil law. It is true that we have no sanctioned and unified administrative law; it is a tribute to the Governor's realism that he sees the infinite possibilities of administrative lawlessness which this implies. POLLUX...
...sluttish Pola Illery. There is aristocratic Paul Olivier who plays in July 14 one of the funniest drunks ever seen. There are half a dozen marvelous character actors whom Clair uses to fill Frenchmen. French critics found that he had used all this to achieve "poetic aura,' "poetic realism...