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Considered Opinion. The early Runyon shows talents of two kinds: he might have written boys' stories with the charm and freshness of Booth Tarkington's Penrod books, or he might have become a Lardner-like realist in vernacular. Instead, he mastered a highly successful formula...
Meanwhile Curt, the second brother, is wandering through the snow-checked valleys, tracking the panther which killed his brother. This man is the real master of the family, the hunter, the bully, the realist who has scoffed at his brothers for believing the tales of their old Indian handyman about a black panther as big as a horse who can't to killed with bullets. Clark really hits his stride in the description of curt's gradual disintegration under the onslaught of snow, time, hunger, fatigue, fear, and his own imagination. The long, magnificently told story of curt's hunt...
Courbet did see the world with a childlike directness and delight. He painted it, according to one contemporary, "as simply as an apple tree bears apples." He didn't much like being called a realist-it was a term of opprobrium in some circles in those days, too-but he used to pound on the table and insist that painting was a physical language having nothing to do with history, romance or religion. "Show me an angel," he shouted, "and I will paint...
Generally speaking, Red Gloves lacks bias-and takes on a certain breadth-by dealing with political types rather than political tenets, and by suggesting that it takes a good many kinds of people to make up even a Communist world. The essential struggle between idealist and realist, absolutist and compromiser, is indeed common to all movements; what might be considered "anticommunist" about the play is its picturing a lack of charity that begins at home...
...party leader is the realist who accepts people as they are and is willing to wear red gloves to hide the blood on his hands if that will advance the party cause...