Word: realisme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gist of Author Lin's philosophy is that Occidentals need to be taught "a wise disenchantment and a hearty enjoyment of ife." As a measuring rod for gauging the well-balanced man and nation. Dr. Lin submits a formula based on a blend of realism ("R"), dreams ("D"), humor ("H"), sensibility ("S"), qualified by 4 (abnormally high), 3 (high), 2 (fair) and 1 (low). The ideal formula, says Dr. Lin, is R3D2H352 (a middle-of-the-road balance). Nearest to this ideal are the English, one point low on humor and sensibility. The Germans, Japanese and Russians make...
Most substantial realism was in two paintings by 32-year-old Julio Castellanos, One, Dialogue, showed a doped, unbuttoned soldier sitting on the edge of a prostitute...
Errol Flynn, God's gift to this puny human race, displays how the perfect man should disport himself when caught between the realism of a woman's world and the idealism of a life of complete social vapidity. Pursued by Joan Blondell, who is not over-subtle in her go-getting, Mr. Flynn knocks out Allan Jenkins, prize fighter extraordinary, fights in his place, and pursues his inconsequential way through the rest of the film...
Divorced. Actor Richard Bennett, father of Actresses Joan, Barbara, Constance; by Angela Raisch Bennett; in Los Angeles. Married since 1927, they separated in 1934. Mrs. Bennett was awarded $60,000 community property. Said she: "Dick would go temporarily insane, and play his parts with such realism that he climaxed one performance by driving a nail file through my cheek...
...Japanese uniform!" shrilled Lieut.-Colonel Tan Takahashi of the Tokyo Japanese General Staff to Manhattan reporters. "Our Japanese bayonet technique is entirely different from that and I can prove it!" Grabbing a pencil, the Japanese officer thrust, ripped and jabbed an imaginary enemy while yipping war cries with such realism that a female reporter was overcome with queasiness...