Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage, after all, is small; the characters too often, unreal. Alurid himself appears a bit inflated by his author's fervor in creating him. His son, Gilson, in his love for the little Japanese girl, is not always completely convincing. The story itself often lacks clarity, becomes entangled in the mazes of an evident flair for originality. Yet it is interesting, at times, revealing. And any novel which includes a character like the good Captain Horn who had one very bad night must eventually satisfy, even as does this one from the many refreshing descriptions of the many refreshing descriptions...
...play are not all mere Shavian types, but present among their numbers true character studies. And it is in playing these character studies that the Repertory actors excelled. There was a flatness of level in their portrayal of the types, a tendency to overplay and make garishly unreal the half people, which was remarkably absent from their rendering of the character parts...
...sparkling in a sign of Kohinoors. 'This is Harvard Square,' I said to myself, remembering a zealously studied map. A surge of brisk, chill air cooled our faces. Light twinkled and beamed all around, as if in general welcome. People and autos and streetcars passed like noisy phantoms. So unreal and theatrical did it all seem that I wanted to pinch myself, but at that moment, with a word, my friend plunged into the midst of the props and characters, and I followed perforce...
Peace Argument Unreal...
...called World Court can have but little relation to the problem of peace, the issue as to whether the United States should not "join" it or not can hardly be placed on the ground that peace will thereby either be promoted or retarded. That issue, I believe, is unreal and fanciful. Perhaps we ought to aid any movement that even looks to the judicial settlement or disputes, but when one of the announced inducements for our joining the court is that we would never have to submit a case to it, encouraging an inference that probably we never would...