Word: unrealism
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...novel, The Voyage Out, was published in the spring of 1915, he reviewed it in the Daily News, hailing it as a masterpiece ... He wrote in his review: 'Human relations are no substitute for adventure because when real they are uncomfortable, and when comfortable they must be unreal. It is for a voyage into solitude that man was created.' Virginia Woolf, desperate for reassurance about her work, as she always continued to be, was profoundly grateful for his praise and from now on became very dependent on his opinion. He intrigued her as a person...
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Chen Jo-hsi reserves a special scorn for devotees of those I've-been-to-China travelogues that portray a China far more unreal than her fiction. Nixon's Press Corps shows the enforcers of the Communist Party requiring entire neighbor hoods to tear down their makeshift laundry drying racks suspended from people's dwellings so that they will not be eye sores for the foreign visitors. In fact, the visitors never turn up. The lesson here is that often the most difficult struggles come, not in grand political arenas, but in the small and petty matters...
...peppery performances stand out. Matt Landers delivers a rousing soliloquy about how he quit a bank job because it was unreal and stopped being a cop when he began to hate people. As a fireman, he salvaged dignity and purpose in saving lives. Playing a call girl, Patti Lu-Pone displays a languid, undeluded cynicism that stingingly implies that the U.S. may be a nation of hustlers...
When Feldstein portrays the entire situation as a simply "bizarre" and almost "unreal" scene, in which children, mothers and fathers are forever in fear of their kibbutzes being the target of Palestinian bombing, one must adopt a more analytical and less emotionalist perspective, and ask why the Palestinians are firing. Indeed, when viewed within an historical-political scenario, the scene is certainly not of some bizarre nature where Israeli kibbutzniks just happened to be chosen as Palestinian targets...