Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title poem, like many a Jeffers narrative, starts off in realistic-novel style, plods up into high but hellish places where the wind blows too strong for realism. On a drunken picnic at the seashore Lance caught his brother Michael making love to his wife Fayne: in an instant he had killed Michael. Next instant he regretted it: and if quick-witted Fayne had not made it seem an accident, the murder had been out. To keep the truth from killing his mother, and to save Lance. Fayne persuaded him not to confess what he had done. But his atonement...
...LIFE-E. M. Delafield-Harper ($2.50). More lightly ironic realism by a housewives' rightful favorite...
When President Harry Warner countermanded his order, Producer Zanuck resigned (TIME, May 1). A sharp-faced little man with a rasping voice, abnormal quantities of almost hysterical energy and a wildly eccentric sense of humor, Zanuck's reputation in Hollywood was founded on his skill in handling the realism that has been cinema's most noteworthy development since talkies. Unsympathetic to drawing room comedy, Cinderella romance, mechanical spectacle or pure pornography, Producer Zanuck likes to deal lightheartedly with episodic scenarios about lively, colorful plebeians-with James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, William Powell impersonating taxi-drivers, reporters, gamblers, shysters...
...writer, Pegler's chief merit is an attentive, saturnine realism. The first paragraph of his piece before last week's most widely publicized prizefight: "Jack Sharkey, the prizefighter who took up failure as a vocation in life and made a brilliant success of it, is fighting his old friend Tommy Loughran in Philadelphia tonight. There is a contest in which it ought to be possible to stir up the widest disinterest...
...gasp when he hears that in 1814 "Madison's government... was delighted to be out of the struggle on terms which were not humiliating," that "Grant was the politicians ideal of a President." Unfortunately for the publishers, for the critics, and for Mr. Herbert Agar this too much emphasized realism is not startling. It is merely fact, and the sort of fact which all but high school teachers are able to recognize...