Word: realisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With shifting standards, with biographies professing to plumb the true nature of certain familiar heroes, there have been few figures left to epitomize the standard virtues. In the intense fervor of the present day writers to make realism vivid in its bloodiest detail, a little old-fashioned evangelism is, strangely enough, valuable if not essential. And if this evangelism can be made free of mysticism and endowed with the sincerity of a commanding personality, it supplies, despite its glamor of notoriety, an anchor-stone to many drifters on the modern sea of social and economic uncertainty...
...merely recognizes the fact that it should not exclude the arts but join with them in reducing collegiate thought to a mean of common sense. Any sentimental traditions, no matter how venerable, that exclude from the college curriculum, all but scholastic abstractions untainted by the leprous touch of realism, should never stand in the way of such additions as this...
...film told a tale of pre-War Russia. Spliced into it for realism was a bit of old newsreel showing Tsar Nicholas II. and his Tsaritsa. Fascinated, poor Vassili Martinow watched the Autocrat of all the Russias stride dimly across the screen and enter a base hospital, where he was greeted by the Commandant. As this official's face came into sharp focus, Vassili Martinow gave the thin, high-pitched scream of an old man, and fainted dead away...
...imperial prince. The glistening, silky backs that one time bore the heir to the British throne through many of the most brilliant hunts that the world has seen, are doomed to sigh under the weight of common people, unnoticed, ignored. The days of glory are passed and stark realism shatters the roseate glow of the skies of romance...
...Turgeniev, Dostoievsky-products all of the first days when Russia dared declare herself artistically, when French frippery first seemed foolish and the longings of the Slavic soul important. Great Russian composers are Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky. They too with Glinka. Balakirev and Cui were pioneers in the school of realism. Yet compared with the less Russian Tchaikovsky their fame has spread so slowly that even today outside Russia Moussorgsky is known for his Boris Godounov alone and that in the refined version of Rimsky-Korsakov made popular by Basso Feodor Chaliapin...