Word: unrealism
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...angle between two curves tangent to each other. The ancient Greeks decided that the horn angle was a zero, could therefore be neither measured nor bisected; Isaac Newton and his successors, having no luck with the problem, were constrained to agree. Dr. Kasner solved the problem with four unreal numbers. When the angle is bisected in his geometrical system, the sum of the halves is greater than the whole. And if one of the curves is considered to be a straight line, each half is equal to the whole...
...Slight Case of Murder (by Damon Runyon & Howard Lindsay; Howard Lindsay, producer). The world of Damon Runyon is no less unique, apart and unreal than that of Lewis Carroll or P. G. Wodehouse. For one thing, it has a language of its own, in which a prison is a college, a horse is a beetle, an I. O. U. a marker, a child a punk. And in the lawless cosmos of this oldtime Hearst sportswriter, fictionist and cinema scenarist, criminals are regarded as diverting eccentrics; slaughter, a mere irrelevancy and the underworld, a sort of jocular never-never land. With...
...York Times: ". . . Color will become an integral motion picture element in the next few years." After a day's thought the Times editorialized thus: ". . . The ordinary black-&-white pictures are likely to seem to us hereafter anemic, old-fashioned and unreal...
...Austen commends the King's "quiet devotion to duty," and one must agree, rejoicing that he has been sensible enough to present the King as a good man in a difficult position, and has not attempted the unreal figure of a Colossus dwarfing the men of his time...
...Always Tomorrow is sanctimoniously stupid. Not even Frank Morgan's smooth characterization can make Father White seem anything but a feeble illustration borrowed from a domestic-advice column. The rest of the cast of There's Always Tomorrow are unpleasant nonentities, engaged in difficulties as boring as they are unreal. Worst shot: young Henry White (Alan Hale) arguing with himself...