Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Foe of machinery, Professor Pirandello never tires of manipulating the intricate machinery of the human mind. Attacking cinema with the full venom of a legitimate playwright, he manipulates his customary close-ups and fadeouts of existence, real and unreal, seeming and serious. A mystic, a believer in man's supernatural endowment, he finds nothing too lowly, dull or grotesque to serve his purpose-a beggars' shelter, a dusty country road, a flyblown tavern. One who speculates on the borders of insanity, he never long departs from concrete dramatization. Shoot is as full of action as a wild...
Received the first issue last week and note that you have featured the expressions of The Hon. Benjamin B. Lindsey, "Chastity, continence . . . unreal, unnatural...
Victorianism? It may well be. Yet in these days of diets and derricks and dynamos the pleasure of seeing in the nominal, phenomenal--or what you will an actual Victoria, drawn by an actual, docile Victorian horse is, in no unreal sense, real, vital, lasting...
...course she was not superlative. Her great height is against her. Her voice is not satisfying. It carries well, but needs only the slightest strain to make it harsh, unreal. Her features are not mobile, so that she is reduced to great reality without losing the overtones of dependence upon bodily gesture. Above all, she is faced with the task of interrupting allegory, giving it the ring of fantasy. That she is in any way sufficient to the task is remarkable. Yet she shows an understanding of the part which is admirable and there is never a moment when...
...with God. Accuse him of the sin of which you suspect him. Then by confessing to him (man to man) your own former weaknesses you will elicit a full confession from him. . . . This is often the kind of drastic, spiritual operation which alone can prevent a superficial repentance and unreal conversion. In New York City, last winter, a university student leader came to talk with Mr. Buchman about entering the Christian ministry. . . . Mr. Buchman answered his questions on the ministry to the best of his ability, but still the man seemed unsatisfied. They had finished dinner with little accomplished...