Word: realistic
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...parables of Kafka. Translated into the lingo of current ideological strife, the Old Testament acquires an applicability most have long given up suspecting. To take his own best illustration, Kolakowski turns the story of Jacob and Esau into a lesson on the ways of fabricating political truths. The naive realist who believes in the objectivity of his birthright cannot defend it against the pragmatic idealist who knows that truth lives in opinions, not in acts, and who can manipulate surrounding thought accordingly. Other tales Kolakowski investigates are those of Noah, Ruth and Cain. The subtitles suffice as index...
...popeyed homunculi who scurry like moles through his landscapes or rear up, delicately rainbow-tinted like decaying fungi, in paintings such as Extravagant Lady, 1954 (opposite), are mere coalescences in human form. They are not people but slices of life, and in this perversely microscopic sense Dubuffet is a realist painter. The flat "absurdity" of his gaze on the fallen objects of this world has led to the idea that Dubuffet is not interested in beauty. That is untrue. He claims for his art "another and vaster beauty, touching all objects and beings, not excluding the most despised...
After 1945 Böll worked as an assistant cabinetmaker but quit as soon as his first stories were published. A realist and an ironist, his prose is terse and direct, his manner as reticent and unflamboyant as Grass's is slashing and spectacular. The despair of war and its appalling hardship run through all his early work. For Böll, West Germany's postwar economic boom drowned out the moral voice of his country's guilty conscience. In 1959 he published Billiards at Half-Past Nine, a family chronicle in which the founding father...
Vittorio de Sica's Bicyale Thief and Roberto Rossellini's Open City, two Italian neo-realist classics, the former wearing a bit with age, the latter as powerful as when first released after World War II, at the BRATTLE THEATER. Thief at 6 and 9:30. City at Bogart is Back, again, at the HARVARD SQUARE THEATER, with Woody Allen's comic homage Play It Agaln Sam at 3:25, 6:10 and 9:40 and Michael Curtiz's Casablanca...
There was of course vast skepticism and discouragement in the early days. Says one McGovern worker: "If you were a 'realist' then, you decided that McGovern didn't have a chance; you went to work for Muskie." New Hampshire was crucial. From Yale and Harvard, from New York and Vermont, the young trekked to the state to ring doorbells and organize-500 of them each weekend for six weeks, 2,000 for the weekend before the March 7 primary. "Without question," says Edward O'Donnell, McGovern's national youth director, "it was those seven weekends...