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Aaron was the realist in the car. Jenny, his friend, sat silent in the front seat and rolled her eyes as Joel presented one conspiracy theory after another. I took notes...
...modern-day community organizers, the heirs of Saul Alinsky, fighting for power in the old-fashioned face-to-face style of urban political machines. His moral: "The nation is alive with positive, creative political energies" that never find an outlet in national elections. Yet Greider is too much the realist (covering 20 years of quixotic presidential campaigns inevitably dampens one's dreams) to map out much of a battle plan for John and Jane Doe to regain control of the levers of national power...
However, the realist label is a simplistic description of Mamet--and too unfair. Mamet does not write realistic dialogue unrealistically because he lacks the ability to transfer literal modern speech onto the page, nor does he do it solely to make his characters seem sentimentally corny. Mamet himself decried the critics who called him a magnificent realist, only to turn around and say that he seemed to forget himself at times and wax poetic...
...producers mostly write him off as a shopworn social reformer. In Britain Mt. Morgan is his 13th play to be seen in the West End in the past dozen years. Moreover, British critics and audiences accept him as the poetic expressionist he sees in himself, rather than the earnest realist that U.S. productions relentlessly turn him into. "In London," he says, "audiences and critics are not so bound to familiar forms, and I've been able to demonstrate that the works have contemporary validity. I would hope, if this play succeeds here, that people will say, 'Why does he have...
Among Schor's books are Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine, published in 1987 by Methuen, Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory and French Realist Fiction, published in 1985 by Columbia University Press and Zola's Crowds, published in 1978 by The Johns Hopkins University Press...