Word: unrealism
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...wing English scholar, Edward Hallett Carr, who wrote: "Equality in the abstract is purely formal... Even equality before the law may be a mockery when the law is framed by members of a privileged class. Freedom itself can be equally formal. Freedom to choose or refuse a job is unreal if freedom to refuse is merely tantamount to freedom to starve." It is a powerful and seductive line...
...worker (and their bosses), were not looking ahead with much hope. The Government, on which workers and bosses had leaned more & more heavily in recent decades, was dedicated to planning. But because it would not or could not enforce its plans upon labor (a la Moscow), the planning was unreal...
...Clurman, Elia Kazan & Walter Fried, in association with Herbert H. Harris) has a theatrical force that covers a multitude of sins. Playwright Miller (best known for his novel, Focus) tends to overload his plot and overheat his atmosphere. His writing is uneven, some of his main characters are sometimes unreal, and most of his minor characters are at all times unnecessary. But he combines enough purposefulness with enough power to make him the most interesting of Broadway's new serious playwrights-few of whom, unfortunately, are interesting...
Easy Does It. Many a citizen, geared to the automotive age, found this enthusiasm a little unreal. Slick Goodlin seemed oddly like a man begging to be shot out of a cannon. But Slick didn't think so. Like Columbus, Magellan and the Wright brothers, he was just doing what came naturally. He had been flying almost continuously for seven years, first by dint of washing planes at an airport near his grandfather's Greensburg, Pa. farm, then as a flying officer in the R.C.A.F., then as an ensign in the U.S. Navy and finally as a member...
...Bright Day is jampacked with contempt for the unreal life of Hollywood. Nevertheless, Author Priestley manages to fit into his story a stirring boy-meets-girl romance, a stunning film star, and a gang of hearty Yorkshiremen that any Hollywood director would love to get his hands...