Word: unrealism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill.) Carmen, unlike murky Tom-Tom, was spirited, colorful; its settings a sunburned tan for daytime, a vivid purplish grey by night. There were many ballets; some starkly modern, some in hippy rumba style, one a whirlwind affair with the performers, in long green robes, mounted on horseback. Only unreal touch: the undersized, obviously stuffed bull dragged in at the last. The audience was bothered the first night by "Canadian soldiers" (Ephemeridae, big-winged lake flies, called "Yankee soldiers" in Canada), but well pleased were they, especially with Mary Garden; Garden escaping the guards at the end of the first...
...Battalion (Universal). This is the first important effort to put into a picture the unbreakable deadlock so long maintained by the Austrian and Italian armies in the Dolomite Alps. The picture is that of a very different war from the one of the Western Front, a war white and unreal in which avalanches, blizzards and mountain peaks are tactical considerations. Unreal, but its very unreality, magnificently photographed, is part of its power...
...tease his addled wits, grandmother will not allow the family to shut him up. Curly was her husband's bastard; she had raised him. Gradually Amy is drawn into the family affairs; the memory of her own troubles begins to fade. When grandmother dies, her own troubles look unreal. Geoffrey comes out for the funeral. He has tried to cure his marital troubles by an affair with voluptuous Nina. After his night of infidelity he woke up with a headache like a hangover. By that token he knows his wife is the Woman in the world for him. Heat...
...memories of the war gradually become dimmer, the people of this country are beginning to realize that the hatreds of war days were unreal, manufactured in the interests of political and economic disputes. As we come to look upon our former enemies as fellow human beings, not boasts, we appreciate all the more their character and achievements. We are bound to them in a spirit of mutual respect and international friendship. The restoration of degrees to their rightful owners by the University of Wisconsin is a step in the right direction. We are only sorry that they were taken away...
...commodious living rooms in every house, and quadrangle, where the grass is as fine as a putting green, and men in the college can get an occasional sight or scent of flowers there in season. We liked the great, scroll-worked gates, and the tall arches. We liked the unreal pastel tints of the soaring domes, and we liked the formal garden effect of the trim-banked Charles...