Word: unrealism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schoefer hit both tosses on a one-and-one situation, stretching the lead to three. 27 seconds were left and the fans headed for the exits. But Harvard captain Bobby Beller dribbled past the Terriers and gunned a pass to Jeff Grate underneath who hooked in an unreal lay-up over his left shoulder...
...bizarre concreteness of this alien reality seduces us to accept the fantasy. The convincing stylistic precision restrains the unreal reality from becoming nonsense. In the next paragraph we become involved in the magician who works to dream a man and "insert him into reality" and who later learns that he himself is "a mere appearance, dreamt by another." Borges has taken us from reality to illusion without our awareness of the change...
...weekend when most Americans were watching football, raking leaves or touring the countryside, the biggest "peace" demonstration in the history of the nation's capital unfolded. To the vast majority, the banners of Communism fluttering in Washington, the fist-flailing clashes and the violent verbiage were unsettling, almost unreal. Yet the disquiet that suffused the spectacle was certainly shared to a degree by most Americans. And-however ill-conceived-the Washington demonstration was a reminder to the world of America's cherished right of dissent. It was not the prospect of protest that alarmed Washington so much...
Hitherto, Golding has preferred to present his characters almost as abstractions. Lord of the Flies was a laboratory demonstration of original sin taking place on a rather unreal island; The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin dealt with a mid-Atlantic castaway who seems to choose life with pain over easeful death, but is in fact already dead and in purgatory; The Spire set a drama of spirit and flesh in a remote time. The Pyramid represents no retreat from these tours de force, but Golding's command of fiction is now such that he can dress his tragedians...
...simple tune hammered onto the regulation aaba pop-song structure. But the boys found their conventional sound and juvenile verses stultifying. Says Paul McCartney: "We didn't like the idea of people going onstage and being very unreal and doing sickly songs. We felt that people would like it more, and we would like it more, if there was some-reality...