Word: unrealism
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That paragraph changed everything. It meant that the President of the U.S. had taken the whole atomic-bomb discussion out of the unreal context of "Shall we share the secret of the bomb with the Russians, or shall we keep it?" The secret about the secret was that there was no lasting secret...
...surprisingly well dressed and healthy. Thanks to the Nazi policy of looting Europe of food, the children were sturdy. The young girls were so neat and clean in their freshly washed and pressed summer dresses, their bobby socks and their long blonde braids, that the destruction around them seemed unreal...
...supporting cast the like of which is dreamed of but seldom seen. In his fatter, more difficult role Paul Muni is as fine as they are so long as he takes it easy, but when he gets busy as an actor, his sincere, carefully paragraphed work seems unreal beside the Germans' snapshot authenticity...
...transport pilots and correspondents flying as observers it seemed that the operation was moving at the unreal pace of a speeded-up movie. Within 30 seconds the drop had begun, German flak opened up, colored equipment parachutes dotted the ground, a white parachute was hung up in a tree, a big Hamilcar (British) glider lay on its back, broken and burning...
...London's night life," reported CBS Correspondent Eric Sevareid by short wave last week, "swirls along a few carpeted steps below street level. . . . The orchestra is good. . . . The food is only fair. . . . The atmosphere is phony and the gaiety is forced and unreal...