Word: realisme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That Journey (Caxton, $2.50), the first novel of a 36-year-old Ohioan named Emerson Price, is a sample of such realism-a transcript of back-alley life, swimming-hole conversation, and those other phases of their private lives which sons conceal from their parents...
...deserving, and a great deal of printer's ink, ranging from suggestions in these columns to a more recent plagiarism of Jonathan Swift, has been expended in their behalf. The University was slow in taking steps, very possibly because the condition was considered temporary Justice and a certain mild realism now demand that Harvard find a permanent solution for a problem which ha itself become permanent, and that it find some stop-gap until this remedy is put into effect. Centuries mean little to Harvard, but three years of injustice can do much to a student...
...Lewis and Clark" parallel is not the most important aspect of this bit of writing. The salient feature is rather that Mr. Clark, who spends his days experimenting in Jefferson Laboratory--stronghold of realism--can so banish his work from mind in his leisure as to write fairy tales. Many eminent scientists here have become so ensnared in their research problems that any whimsical relaxation is out of the question. Mr. Clark, however, has successfully bridged the gap between physics and fantasy. In providing a pleasant story for children, he has also shown embattled physicists a method of useful relaxation...
...reputation keeps Author Hutchinson going. As Once You Were, the story of a middle-aged writer named Piers Exceat who retires to a small island-estate to re-live a sort of Boy Scout boyhood, makes Author Hutchinson's If Winter Comes seem in retrospect like hard-hammered realism. Not only has his sentimentality aged terribly but even his style has become wrinkled and chapfallen...
...attempt to break the morale of the Reds. For the first time in Soviet photoplay, justice has been done to their stalwart opponents, and the scene of the psychological charge, with White troops marching stoically, awesomely to their death, is typical of the Russian mind and its grim realism...