Word: realistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Realist Bohrod started out painting brick-by-brick cityscapes of his native Chicago and did a stint for the WPA before he covered the war in the Pacific and the Normandy invasion as a LIFE artist-correspondent. Focusing now on Trompe-l'Oeil, Bohrod explains: "If explanation of these works is needed at all, I might say that they come about particularly because of my impatience with and my reaction against the scattershot, nonobjective and surface-decoration schools of painting which seem to constitute the bulk of current recognized endeavor." Trompe-l'Oeil work, he knows...
...just married someone else. She is down in the mouth when she meets the bookkeeper's bright cousin Ralph (Anthony Franciosa), who sells hardware in Buffalo. Ralph falls for her, rushes her, wants to marry her. She loves him, but the intellectual snob (rather than the realist) in her resists Buffalo and hardware. When she begs Ralph to study for a profession, he flares up and walks out on her. When she confesses her mistake, he walks out on her a second time; but when the curtain falls, he is briskly walking back...
...which repudiates the authority of Peking and cannot be dislodged except by the defeat of the United States in war, just as the People's Republic, which was helped to power by Russia, cannot be overthrown except by the defeat of Russia. The British official doctrine is the "realist" one that recognition does not imply approval, but merely acceptance in international relations of an effective and apparently stable rule over a particular territory. It would be well for Britain to be consist ent in its realism, for what is sauce for the Peking goose is sauce also...
...preferred to see it killed rather than emasculated. In its death struggle, EDC provided one unforeseen consolation. By forcing five sovereign governments to stand up and defend its supranational clauses, EDC, in death, had given proof of the life that was in the ideal. Mendés the realist, with his ability to weigh facts, apparently had not known how to measure the strength of an ideal...
...Italian proverb," said one moviemaker last week: "He who digs a grave is the first to fall into it." But as long as the Italians keep finding gold, they are likely to keep digging. When the gold runs out, they may begin to listen to such critics as Neo-Realist Cesare Zavattini, who says: "It is a crime to use this gift of God . . . the film ... if we don't use our moral conscience and also make films of the real life we see before us. It is like using soap only to make bubbles and never to wash...