Word: unrealism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been centered in the hard, unflamboyant work of tutorial projects and selective patronage campaigns. The newer activities are often less dramatic, usually demand more dedication, and therefore are less likely to involve fringe people. The work has become so hard, or so long-range that it has become unreal to most students. Once again they feel irrelevant. Once again there is the frustration and impotence...
...Veteran Boroff (corporal, Army Intelligence) set out last winter to scrutinize West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy. The current Harper's publishes his third and final report: a blast at service academy education as so full of "narcissistic preening" that it may be too unreal for the real world...
...somehow it all seems a bit unreal, a bit irrelevant; and in a sense it is-in a sense Greek tragedy is dead and can never actually be brought to life. The tragic sense of life is much too primitive a philosophy for individuals who experience God as love and death as rebirth. On the other hand, it is altogether too advanced a concept for people who take man as the measure of all things...
Such reconsiderations are often private, and quite different from what is publicly said-which is one reason why those who think that journalism should bring them "only the facts'' are asking for a barren and unreal account...
...structure is ancient but remarkably sturdy. Since the author's book is a "tale" and not a novel, it is perfectly proper that his true lovers are slightly unreal in an old-fashioned way, rather than, as is now customary, slightly unreal in a modern way. Jahn and Maria speak to each other not in ping-pong dialogue but in fine, prosy paragraphs; they are oftener apart than together; they love honor more. And the reader, to his surprise, may find that he likes them this...