Word: unrealism
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...Iron Curtain itself seems less an instrument of terror and repression than a gigantic cobweb of cliche. Particularly to the generation that has reached voting (or at least debating) age since the early coups and crises of the postwar era, the sounds of struggle appear almost as irrelevant and unreal as fragments of a horror tale recollected from childhood. Many of their elders see Communism in the confused, self-doubting terms that have characterized the recent wave of academic protest over Viet Nam and Santo Domingo. "Is it up to us to say who is a Communist...
...Russian icon with its blank-eyed stare and stiff frontal figures was, next to shop signs, the art he knew best. Those Eastern images lean away from pictorial realism toward symbolism, and he loved them, as he says, because they are both "magical and unreal...
British Columnist Malcolm Muggeridge is also appalled. While admitting that Bond's "instant appeal to attractive women, his dash and daring and smartness combined with toughness, make him every inch a hero of our time," he also notes that "insofar as one can focus on so shadowy and unreal a character, he is utterly despicable: obsequious to his superiors, pretentious in his tastes, callous and brutal in his ways, with strong undertones of sadism, and an unspeakable cad in his relations with women, toward whom sexual appetite represents the only approach...
...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...