Word: unrealism
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There are two confidential clerks in the employ of Sir Claude Mulhammer, one an old, pure soul, about to retire. The other, Colby Simpkins, is a frustrated musician, whom Sir Claude believes to be his illegitimate son. Simpkins feels that his music exits in an unreal world as long as Sir Claude is his father; his life belongs in finance, with his parent. Yet, strangely enough, finance also seems like fantasy to him, and for a while, he feels that every man is given one vocation from his parents and one from God alone. In the final act, as Simpkins...
India's relations with Red China, said Nehru firmly, are "friendly." In this Nehrunian climax, the Prime Minister turned on his inquisitors: "Members seem to live in an unreal world," he remarked. "We should know the ABC of foreign policy before we start to talk about...
...painting, abstract photographic experiments seem destined not to replace realism, but to teach it new tricks. One of the paradoxes of photography is the fact that never does life seem more unreal than when the realistic camera comes closest to it: when Harold Edgerton photographed a drop of milk falling into a saucer, it came out looking like a crown, and when Edward Weston shot the heart of an artichoke, it looked like a modernistic abstraction...
...characteristic. Reporter Barzini agrees that it is one of the sights of the U.S. "Many [women] sport long conic breasts jutting out like tents from blouses and pullovers . . . They carry them under their chins with the same indifference with which soldiers carry their packs on the back. Strange and unreal breasts they are ... Symbolic appendages ... a fiction...
...quite solved the problem of getting the player to the right spot when he must philosophize. As a result, the first scene of This Music is a little like a game of musical chairs. Heroine Amanda Steele has the same trouble. Her dreamy wanderings often seem unreal. She plays her part, however, with an understanding equal to that which she showed in her capable direction of The Trojan Horse...