Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Importance of Being Earnest" is pleasantly reminiscent of England's upper crust before the age of umbrella politics and Lady Astor. Fragrant, trivial, witty, and as unreal as Dresden China, this horsehair classic of Oscar Wilde's is a harmless sedative for 1939 hangovers...
...last stand of her independence. All society, exemplified by aunts, veterans, parents and brothers, seems to be forcing her into a complicated ritual which has nothing to do with her relations with the doctor. As a result all the trappings-the flags, costumes, bridesmaids-seem as quaint and unreal as an anthropologist's description of some South Sea Islanders' marriage rite. Jennie surrenders, but only after she has discovered, by making eyes at the best man, that there is more than one way of getting her way, that conforming to society's demands may not mean...
...TIME'S "ideas of poetry" are based not on semantics-the science of meaning-but on poetry-the articulation of reality. Because many "poets" are adept at articulating unreality does not seem to TIME good reason for it to desert its single standard of poetry criticism: poems that articulate real sense are poems; poems that articulate unreal non-sense are not poems...
...likable fable, it makes it an absurd play. Humorous mood and melodramatic plot refuse to jell. Murder is usually a fairly serious business, and murder conceived and carried out by two good-natured fishermen should be fairly agonizing. Instead it becomes a piece of hanky-panky, awkward, grotesque, unreal...
...keynote of these artists is that "the mood of the country dominates its painters," and Wells is one who is strongly under the singular spell of the region. The seemingly unreal colors and the patterns of curving rock strata have been used by him as the basis for powerful and intricate designs. The Death Valley and Otowi landscapes are done in a swirling, rhythmic manner with different tones of brown which emphasize the bare aridness of the scene. The view of Pajaritc seems to indicate the influence of Cezanne upon Wells in the development of solid forms and is much...