Word: unrealism
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...extraordinary fact that mediocre novels often make the most acceptable plays. Likewise, mediocre novels and plays often make the best cinemas. A fair example is 24 Hours. Louis Bromfield's book receives substance in the cinema. Its overtheatrical characters, given faces, bodies, legs and voices, cease being utterly unreal and their problems serve some purpose beyond boiling an author...
...Anglo-Saxons such involved methods may seem unreal, but Russians have always enjoyed intrigue and devious means more than any other game. In the cities of New York, Chicago, Washington, etc. the G. P. U. is believed to maintain numerous agents, and is believed to believe that they find things out. Perhaps there is nothing to be found out in the U. S., perhaps nothing escapes the free and vigilant press; but if President Hoover wants to find things out in Russian cities he will have to send spies there. In Moscow, where they know that their own press...
...great English country house, one of the many built to be the glory of the aristocracy but becoming its grievous burden, is the dominating personality of this novel. The figures of the story are drawn from the unreal, tightly woven society of the reign of King Edward VII. Characters and house together present the argument: that there is no living under the weight of aristocratic tradition, but only a formalized existence of satisfying present appearances and ancient responsibilities...
...night last week, big floodlights poured metallic glare over a baseball field under a pitchblack sky and the Cincinnati "Reds" played an exhibition game with the Indianapolis "Indians." It was the first night game ever played by a major league team. The lights turned the field to a vividly unreal color, like grass in a postcard, against which the figures of the players stood out sharply three-dimensional. Both teams were hitting well but the red-legged fielders were uncertain judging distances and fumbled. In the fourth Bob Meusel struck out with the bases full. Cincinnati was leading...
Four strange French children-Paul, his sister Elizabeth, their friends Agatha and Gerard-and a wealthy American Jew are placed by Author Cocteau in a scene bathed in a curious, unreal melancholy. Of Paul and Elizabeth, two orphans whose fate is to live thoroughly naive and irresponsible lives, the story chiefly concerns itself...