Word: unrealism
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...Unreal City. Boston, in the view of its Broadway visitors, is a city as unreal as Morgan le Fay's forest, consisting of just a few buildings and a couple of dozen cabs. As Camelot principals were shuttling back and forth between the gilt Shubert Theater and the plush Ritz-Carlton Hotel, everyone was rewriting Camelot. Bit players were suggesting changes to chorus girls. Even floor waiters appeared to have a new second act under their silver dish covers recalling Moss Hart's adage that when a show is in trouble, room service invariably seems awful...
...late as the 14th century, "did not copy the sky men see, but transmuted it into a sky charged with Christ's presence." But a century later Botticelli plunged into profane art with his sea-born Birth of Venus, and nymphs began competing with angels "and the Unreal with the City...
...thought and interpretive ability. Studies of the kinds of students recommended by various secondary schools could make grades more reliable. But the belligerence and muddled thinking of this article will not help these ideas gain acceptance. Conspiracy theories provide an easy object of blame, but too often they are unreal...
...gives him a tendency to think that everyone else lives just the way he does." Suburbanite-Author Robert Paul ("Where Did You Go?" "Out." "What Did You Do?" "Nothing.") Smith (New York City's Scarsdale), complains that Scarsdale is "just like a Deanna Durbin movie: all clean and unreal. Hell, I went to school in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with the furnace man's son-you don't get that here...
...preoccupation with the subsoil of the mind, it owes much to Joyce and Proust, and in its meticulous focusing on reality it often achieves unreal effects-just as a section of skin under a microscope does not look like skin but like a lunar landscape. Despite frequent stretches of dullness, the New Realist writers are sometimes fascinating because they have moved away from the facile psychology and sociology that filled so much fiction in the '30s and '40s; their characters seem to float through the vast emptiness of society like planets close to collision...