Word: unrealism
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President Harry Truman gave no sign that he knew his feet were wet; he was peppy, dapper and punctual as usual, and he reflected a hearty good cheer. But there was something a little unreal about his brisk attitude of unconcern. The angry waters of Democratic politics washed muddily through the White House all week and the President scarcely moved without sloshing in the stuff...
...that Passage to India has inadvertently done a disservice to contemporary readers by its very excellence. It has laid too heavy a shadow on the imagination, casting each new work in the model of its grave and thoughtful characterizations and demanding of each something of the haunting real-and-unreal atmosphere that has come to be identified in the minds of Westerners as India...
...Dimitrov's own National Assembly at Sofia, Deputy Kosta Lulchev, spokesman of the isolated little nine-man parliamentary opposition, had dared to criticize the budget as "insincere and unreal." Dimitrov gave them Red blazes: "Miserable chatterers, talking like a foreign gramophone record . . .! You will remember that in this Assembly I many times warned coalition members of Nikola Petkov's group but they did not listen. They lost their heads, and their leader lies buried. Reflect on your own actions, lest you suffer the same fate . . .!" Lulchev and associates reflected furiously. Dimitrov's budget was adopted unanimously...
...about a half-hour too much of a good thing-and few things pall like a dream that cannot be shaken off. Cocteau's moody retort to this criticism is that there's just no dream to shake off: "It's a realistic film in an unreal world...
...ambassadors and politically influential ballerinas making history behind champagne and potted palms. Those were the days when agreement between nations was possible. Now that diplomacy has become a matter of political philosophies which by definition cannot agree with each other, both the conferences and the parties have assumed the unreal air of a costume play in modern dress...