Word: unreality
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...ugly to last out a season; now people speculate about what it will have meant "when it dies." Yet abstract art does not die easily. Top U.S. artists, who used to paint recognizable subjects, put their real mark upon the world when they began to paint the unseen, the unreal and the untidy. And they have been around long enough for critics now to cast about for ancestors to confirm abstractionism in a tradition of its own. Last week an exhibition in West Germany revealed a new "father" of abstractionism; he turned out to be none other than the great...
...suppose he intended it) a sense of exaltation, induced by being in the presence of men," his soldiers. In his view, the Army's critics are dead wrong when they say that the military has isolated itself from the French reality. Rather, France herself has grown unreal, and failed to face the issues...
...like a round-robin, fold-over-and-add-a-line letter: "You certainly are an unusual girl to find in this sort of place . . . Darling, I love enough for two . . . My father used to say that love comes on silent feet . . . It's all so foolish, all so unreal." And that's a fact...
...chic; it reads as if written in expensive perfume on the stationery of the Ritz. But literary style can't be photographed, and in other respects the novel is sort of a mess. The plot is often gappy and sometimes sappy; the characters are superficially silly and fundamentally unreal. The intellectual apparatus of the tale-a compendium of cocktail party chatter about psychiatry-is almost pathetic. What's more, in the film the 18-to-29-year-old heroine is played by 42-year-old Jennifer Jones...
...patrols seldom strayed far from these redoubts; the rest of Elisabethville belonged exclusively to Katanga's soldiers, black and white, who wandered the streets or stood guard. There was something unreal about the whole thing. As the U.N.'s General McKeown put it, after a flying visit to Elisabethville early in the week, "We are not fighting a battle in the usual sense." It was masterful understatement...