Word: unrealism
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...main criticism levelled against the theory courses, it is hardly serious enough to demand rebuttal. The abstractions, the artificially simplified models, are merely the skeleton which the flesh of facts and complications is later to cover. In an elementary course in physics, for example, there are unreal hypothesis. Friction may be ignored, or no account may be taken of developments in quanta analysis. A subject has to start somewhere. It is better to start from the assumption that tractors can be converted into printing presses than from an involved discussion of the concepts of periods of production...
...Spain and France there was no rejoicing, only a queer, unreal enthusiasm. Arriba of Madrid, the Falangist paper, tried to take consolation in a link of blood with ancient Germans. Basques, Asturians, Castilians, it said, "bear the unmistakable imprint of their Visigoth origin." In Paris, Le Temps's editorial writer cut a tiny gem of black futility: "There are days when it is difficult to write anything at all on any subject whatsoever...
There is no such unreal detachment in another English tale, Landfall (Morrow, $2.50) by Nevil Shute (real name: Nevil Shute Norway). Five months before World War II began, Shute's novel, Ordeal, depicted its coming horrors with remarkable power and prescience. Onetime dirigible builder and airplane manufacturer, Shute is now working at the Admiralty, wrote Landfall in his spare time. It is the story of an R. A. F. pilot on the Channel patrol who sinks a submarine, falls in love with a barmaid. The Navy thinks the submarine was British; Mona, her ears open behind the bar, sets...
...measured against the reality of World War II, last week's game was more unreal than most such playing at soldiers. There was absurdly little Air Corps participation, practically no realistic anti-aircraft practice, no practice whatsoever with and against parachute troops-which the U. S. Army has not officially recognized. What useful training and new techniques the Army did pick up cost the taxpayers about $2,400,000. They probably got more for their money than the Army did. For last week's game provided an excellent index of what the U. S. Army has, what...
...painting. The position of the bodies, the obvious difference in type between the women, and the highly successful use of color, lead one to believe that far from being vacuous, the painting is an excellent expression of what can be called "otherworldliness." We are faced with an unreal, but somehow true work...