Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Many a U. S. Senator indignantly criticized last year's film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, said it was artificial, unreal, undignified, and phony-in short, not at all the way U. S. Senators really act. Last week the entire U. S. Senate in real life played out a political comedy that was artificial, unreal, undignified and phony...
...Fight for Life runs for only 30 minutes. Dramatic without ever being theatrical, it makes even such top-notch Hollywood medical pictures as Men in White and Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet seem unreal and stagy. In its realism it sustains the suspense luckily caught a few minutes each year on epic newsreels...
...Rawlings between the idealism that made him take on a sickening job, and the nausea induced by the job itself. The other conflict-love v. duty-is old stage twaddle which Adapter Glazer could not bring to life. Despite its bold beginning, the love affair is flimsy, vaporous, unreal, nearly sinks the play. Only eloquent rhetoric holds the second half of The Fifth Column together. And nothing could be less characteristic of Hemingway than eloquent rhetoric...