Word: unrealism
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...make us forgive the hoax. "Chapters from a Summer Romance" is conventional in detail and feeble in situation: in the descriptive parts "scarcely a sound broke the quiet," although a hermit thrush "could be heard in the distance; in the narrative part we have, in addition to some very unreal dialogue, the old, old ending! "Thereupon he turned upon his heel and strode off into the night." Heroes ought to behave with more originality that that...
...skull fractured? And what manner of man was Mr. Kornfield's Sergius, so stirred by a chromo, competent analyst of Oscar Wilde's tremendous ballad, victim of the Sicilian fruit seller and the New York policeman? It's very vivid painting of New York, very real and very unreal. Do not all these story tellers need to ponder and take to heart the doctrine which Mr. Skinner so clearly sets forth...
...doubtful if one Freshman in a hundred knows these requirements and the proportion in the upper classes is not much higher. Here the average undergraduate is willing to admit that the Phi Beta Kappa is an estimate institution, but to him it is something vague and unreal. He has no idea what he must accomplish to become eligible, and so he spends no time nor thought on the matter...
...most talked of issues in the present campaign, said Mr. McCall, are those of the tariff, trusts, the personality of the Republican candidate, the Philippines, and militarism. But these are unreal issues, raised by the Democrats. The Democratic party for 40 years has been the party of opposition, and it is so now. The Republican party, after serious Democratic crises, has received control of the government, and in each case has brought about national prosperity...
...true, Professor Shaler acknowledges, that this intellectual quality akin to their own which men believe they see through the harmony of natural laws is but an imagination and an unreal theory. Personally, Professor Shaler believes it is not unreal, but is a scientific fact. By a series of illustrations he strives to prove that the fundamental processes of nature are so closly akin to the workings of the minds of men that we cannot escape the belief that some infinite and unmortal intelligence is back of all natural phenomena...