Word: unrealism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year the little, posed picture and short inconsequential recital of facts has given way to more sophisticated profiles, both pictorially and substantively. Most writers have adopted the interview transcript technique with varying degrees of success in grace and content. But this method usually seems artifical and makes the man unreal, since it often discusses him in a vacuum. Somehow a teacher doesn't seem truly intelligent or particularly worth knowing until the author can maintain an objective tone and a critical stance. Of fifteen profiles, only three-Andrew Weil on Jerome Bruner, Michael O'Hare's defense of Jose Luis...
...established in the first moment by a lute, by Joseph Ingelfinger's clever valentine set, and by the action of the two sprites who manipulate players and audience. There is no trace of strain in Lorca's imaginative forays; he evokes intense and genuine emotion without fighting against the unreal setting of the theatre. But because the play recognizes and uses this unreality, it comes off less well in the reading than other comparable drama, and is not easy to imagine off-stage. Joel Schwartz, and uniformly fine acting, has made something really fine from a difficult play...
...this book, which is the third and presumably final installment in the memoirs of the most relentlessly intellectual and ungrand-motherish woman in France. Simone de Beauvoir has no husband and no children; by design, she has denied herself the rewards, or the burdens, of maternity. The smile is unreal, put on, perhaps, for the photographer; she cannot accept or endure the fact that she is now 57. Her mortality has obsessed her for a generation. "Since 1944, the most important, the most irreparable thing that has happened to me is that I have grown old. How is it that...
...trouble with this hallucinatory first novel is that Author Moreau i trying to be like Sartre, only smartre. His intense existentialism is closer to dementia, and the result is a raging stream of semiconsciousness in which real and imagined horrors swim by, indistinguishable and unreal. "You go through streets but you do not see the streets, you go through people but you do not see the people," muses Quinte, who doesn...
...other essays in this issue treat general aspects of undergraduate education, but whereas Deats and Buck make some attempt to be systematic, both Susanne Rudolph's "The Ivory Dorm Revisited: The Reality of the Unreal" and Robert W. Gordon's "Thoughts from an Army Camp in Germany" are essentially exercises in self-indulgence. They cloak in abstractions and portentous words insights that are clearly the results of personal experience, nothing more, nothing less. With the aid of some semantic sophistry, Mrs. Rudolph suggests that the old cliche criticism of the Ivory Tower should be discarded; college should...