Word: realism
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...work suggests a third possibility: namely, that the museum mail-order art survey course your man Hughes took included only one line about Kline (probably "Franz Kline -20th-cent. Am. abstract expressionist"). It's no doubt news to Hughes, but Kline went through a period of realism, including social realism. This is a painting by Franz Kline (not Ben Shahn) called Ex-Servicemen and the Unemployed (1941). As your man says, "One example will do for all." I'm afraid that leaves us with just one elementary howler: the one named Robert Hughes...
...watcher, and, although she understands Emily's growth, she stands back from it. She has already been through the struggle to achieve adulthood, and can only guide by example. While she has used an omniscient narrator in other books, the character's struggles have been her own, and their realism prevented resolution. Walls don't open up in real life, and women do not burst through into other world's. Africa, Lessing's nemesis, is only mentioned in passing in Memoirs, where in her previous work it has been a recurring motif. Political awareness is here, but in a more...
...capitalism has the overwhelmingly powerful defense of simple realism. There is just enough of a "Scotchman" in most people to make them work harder for their own advancement than for the good of their fellows?a fact that regularly embarrasses socialist regimes. The Soviet Union permits collective farmers to cultivate small private plots in their spare time and sell the produce for their own profit. Those plots account for a mere 4% of the land under cultivation in the U.S.S.R.?yet, by value, they produce a fourth of the country's food...
...Cold Realism. It has become an exercise in bouncing back, proving that the U.S., despite its recent grogginess from Indochina, is as strong and clear-eyed as ever. Ford had hardly unpacked from Europe last week when he flew up to West Point to tell the graduating cadets that he had found in the NATO nations "a new sense of confidence in the United States." That same day, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller spoke to the middies at Annapolis about the need for a "cold realism" in American military strength. "We must remain aware," he said, "that the Soviets are increasing...
Such a story hovers between horrific realism and howling symbolism (the loss of a womb equaling not merely the loss of fruitfulness but the whole power to love). Indeed Corregidora could be dismissed as musings on the sordidness of some of life's more desperate characters if the novel did not manage to illuminate the wider question of the way all men need women. Mutt is the masculine principle in its surly, street-brother aspect. For him pride seems uppermost-the pain is mainly hers...