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...scorn. He was angry at social injustice, but the idea of reform bored him just as much. The source of his anger seemed to spring from his childhood in Sauk Centre, in which, to his intense disappointment, he could see no Lancelots and no shining castles. Usually mislabeled a realist or a satirist, he was really a disappointed romantic...
...temperas, mostly records of the Pennsylvania countryside and Maine seacoast he knows best, are Wyeth's chief work. The worst of them look unnecessarily labored, but the best make him a candidate for the mantle of the great Pennsylvania realist Thomas Eakins. That dour master specialized in dramatizing the obvious, as Wyeth does in his crystalline Spindrift. The earthier Eakins would never have attempted Soaring...
Fuss & Feathers. Pogoland's characters are talking animals who live in the Okefenokee Swamp and call themselves "nature's screetures." Pogo himself is a wide-eyed, naive little possum, and his pals include a raffish, cigar-smoking alligator named Albert; Porky Pine, a gloomy realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate captain; Rowland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo-scientist who once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns...
...dead set against the "realism" which demands characters who talk and act "like real people." Says he: "The realistic play is not realistic at all, but just a slice off the top of existence. Writing a realistic play is like meeting a human being for the first time. The realist would observe that this is Mr. So-and-So, that he has a beard and an accent and a mole on his face. But the human being is far more peculiar, something that has gone on since the beginning of time, now miraculously summed up in the strange sort...
...course would be inefficient. He can ignore an uncut lawn or an unpolished shoe, but will pick out an unkempt airplane across the field. "He is a single-minded 'why?' guy, an administrator of high ability, and above all a hard-shelled military realist," one of his staff said appraisingly. "And I'm damn glad he's not on Russia's side...