Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peter, an English cleric, lives among the unrealities of pre-war England. Formal religious duties fill his working hours, and unreal religious conceptions his thoughts. There is a fiancee as unreal as all the rest. Conventional thoughts and aspirations and sentiments combine in her to make a personality that is a mere summation of unrealities. But all these things are real to Peter in "Simon Called Peter" by Robert Keable. The surface of the man leads its tranquil surface existence...
...therefore, the Piece seemed unreal and consequently unsatisfactory, the fault lies with those old masters, Racine and Corneille, who so effectively bound the drama of their native land to the chariot-wheels of Convention. Indeed, most of the contemporary French work which filters through to this country shows that lack of spontaneity which results from adapting life to the stage and not the stage to life. Nor are Kistmaecker and the adaptor--Paul Kester--any exceptions to the rule: for while the dialogue is occasionally interesting, the plot is hopelessly stereotyped. Thus such lines as, "Pan--that gay little goatlegged...
...Christian Science regards as real only that which can be attributed to God, the only real cause, precluding any effect from any other cause. Evil, discord, sin and disease have no relation with God or his perfect creation, hence are unreal. All mankind, striving to be rid of evil, instinctively repudiates it in their thought as being unnatural, hence in the last analysis unreal. Though very real to the material sense, sin, sickness and discord, judged in the light of the spiritual sense of being which overrules and transcends material sense, are seen to be false claims about true life...
Concerning the tendencies of modern poetry. Mr. Markham was optimistic. "The tendencies are all away form the pure fantastic and unreal in romanticism to what is vivid and vital in the common human life around us. The poets are taking deeper hold upon reality. Old romantic poets went to the distant and dead to find their strange beauty, but the new find a strange beauty and a tragic terror in the familiar lives of men and women in our workaday world. This might be called strong tendencies towards the democratic in literature. So strong is this tendency that I doubt...
Besides this more practical side, Phillips Brooks House gives many undergraduates their first glimmering realization of the important fact that religion is not necessarily impracticable and unreal, but is merely applied idealism,--in other words, service...