Word: unrealism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limits by inventing inhuman horrors, but he only managed to make his compilation shatteringly dreary. Toward the end of his 120 Days of Sodom he was no longer really writing, but simply setting down long lists of neatly numbered and tersely outlined enormities-the effect being ludicrous and totally unreal. Much of the current writing on sex approaches this quality of mechanical repetition and unreality...
...tons heavy, topped by 50 electric candles. But it wasn't really a cake at all; it was made of steel and latticework and 30,000 growing plants. And this outsize inedibility was quite fitting. For the 50th birthday it celebrated was that of the wonderfully unreal stage show called Miami Beach...
...government professor said yesterday, "this debate has generated into a confusing, and very boring, circus." From a distance, of course, the debate has seemed anything but boring. Tempers have flared; grandiose schemes have been hatched; coalitions have formed and dissolved. But the hoopla and intrigue have been wholly unreal, for the debate has completely by-passed the real issues. No one has seriously attacked the central questions: What does "general" mean in the 1960's? Why do so few top-flight professors want to teach Gen Ed courses? Why do students so often despise the courses and refuse to attend...
...film, on the other hand, he is a milquetoast. He looks like a model from some fashion magazine--just as depressingly lifeless, unreal, and unlikeable. He is no more than a simple foil for Zorba. The film implies, apparently unintentionally, that this effeminate character is homosexual. Although the suggestion is later contradicted, it is unmistakable and confusing...
...rightist radical's hates are directed toward people, Hall said, because the rightest is "a passionate system lover." The reactionary vocabulary is "the symbolism of the middle class," he added, because its power comes from a set of unreal American ideals...