Word: realisme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived, except, of course, in the paranoiac's dream world, which is admittedly the level of reality with which the Surrealist painters and writers are concerned. As it happens, most of the critical enthusiasm for Mr. Caldwell's work has been devoted less to defending his "realism" than to pointing out the beauties of his style. There is no denying the hypnotic effect which the rhythmic dialogue of the mental defectives in "Tobacco Road," in its stage version, exercises on the spectator. One leaves the theatre on the point of babbling oneself. Mr. Caldwell's stylistic devices are, though effective...
...before he was offered the chair of political economy at Lausanne in 1894. The untrained U. S. reader who opens The Mind and Society finds himself in a thicket of abstract statements and scholarly quotations, quickly discovers that Pareto's first purpose is to establish a strict political realism, to make sociology a pure science, comparable to astronomy or mathematics. Says the Italian professor: "We are in no sense intending ... to exalt logic and experience to a greater power and majesty than dogmas accepted by sentiment. Our aim is to distinguish, not to compare, and much less to pass...
Romantic and imaginative to the last degree, Thames Williamson's book is a most pleasant thing with which to while away an afternoon, a tonic after the ghastly realism of many modern authors...
...Thames Williamson has written five "regional novels" of the U. S., says D Is For Dutch (TIME, Sept. 24) is to be his last. Last week he published an experimental "interlude"-a story that was as different from his melodramas-washed-in-realism as it could well be. Though Under the Linden Tree is a full-length (200-page) novel, it is really a fairytale, of the same order, though not the same rank, as Max Beerbohm's Happy Hypocrite...
...Surely, everyone over 21 years must know what type of play he is going to, and if he doesn't like realism, he needn't go. As for legislating against bold, modern plays, that is just as silly as trying to legislate against drinking. If a man wants to drink, he is going to do it regardless of laws...