Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have in France political stability, while in Germany they have more economic success, but it is possible that Germany more than France will be able to give Europe what is needed in an economic sense. We Frenchmen must see this problem in the light of realism, but we must also-look at the political consequences. Of course, the German government needs a great success. If this projected plan goes through, it would help Germany gain the necessary stability...
...ibis feet are not the kind that wash out easily. We do not defend the Vagabond or know whether or not he strays into the Radcliffe yard in search of romance, but if romanticism affirmative or negative at Radcliffe be blameworthy, the Lampoon may be blamed for expecting realism in the CRIMSON. Nor do we encourage any quest for classicism in the Lampoon. --Radcliffe Daily...
...weaknesses of mankind, the errors; I had seen human relations at their most naked, human emotions when the bars were down and the soul peered out, heroic, cowardly or defiant. Yet I could not write of these things. I did not want to recall them. To this moment realism is easy for me, much easier than other writing. ... I turned to romance, to crime, to farce, to adventure; anything but reality...
...style is apt to become too consciously poetic, so might the dramatic reality be said to tend toward the literary only, so can the painstaking dialogue become a trifle clotting. However, without caviling over critical straws, there is much in this book for those who believe that realism does not necessarily mean a lack of imagination, that humanity is only as barren as those who observe it. For these, and for any who like a good story, there is beauty and reality in "Three Steeples," and perhaps also a part answer to "Main Street" and the often shallow photography...
...great fight scene. That these excellences are unintentional in no way detracts from the power of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Yet there is pathos in it too, for William Farnum and Thomas Santschi used to put on fistfights in silent pictures that are still famed for their realism. Now both are aging, paunchy men, and their struggle is grotesque, humiliating, feeble. In the end Farnum quits drinking and Little Mary does not die in spite of being hit in the head by a beer schooner when she goes to bring her father home from the saloon...