Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play, pure fantasia, passes back and forth from satire to poetry. The masks and costumes seek to retain the comic realism of the ancient Athenian productions, and the lines give classical flavor to the whole...
...19th Century good painters generally quit regarding the female body as necessarily a subject for boudoir decoration, went hell-bent in two directions: moony romanticism and substantial realism. Several minor pictures illustrated the first; Gustave Courbet's Midday Dream (see cut) exemplified both. Courbet was a law student whose paintings of such big, authentically voluptuous women struck Parisians of the 1850s as "vulgar...
...Prosser's speech was as frank and complete a statement of the vocational view of education as could be found, but a gloomy picture of the future of democracy is painted by his sturdy, scientific facing of the facts. His realism frankly admits that the mass of humanity cannot be decorated much, and in meeting the problem of unemployable youth he would at least make them skillful drones during the incubation period. "Now, and not at some indefinite time to come, education should be integrated with life and kept integrated for all time to come," Dr. Prosser stated...
This production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" is first-class. Miss Winwood's directing is smooth, although the first act could be improved by cutting long speeches that leave the actors breathless and the audience a little bewildered. In these days of powerhouse realism and bitter satire, Oscar Wilde has the faintly cloying fragrance of too much old lavender; but he is still amusing...
...embarrassing. As the story proceeds, examining Corrigan's weary scrimpings to pay for flying lessons and then for his own plane; his painfully ineffectual efforts to become a transport pilot; finally, the well-planned exploit which brought him fame, his failings as an actor become the virtues of realism. Thus, The Flying Irishman is raised from the level of a routine Hollywood quickie to that of a sincere and curiously effective cinematic document...