Word: unreality
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...Unreal Morning. That night in Jerusalem was the noisiest since Partition Day. Arab Legion artillery and mortar shells crashed into the Jewish quarters of the new town, kicked up clouds of white smoke and dust. Red tracers streaked across the domed roofs of the Old City. At dawn the Jews sent one last burst into the Arab positions. A shell exploded on the balcony of an Arab hospital, killing an attendant. As he was carried out of the ward, head hanging limply, a nurse whimpered: "He is dead. Did you see him die? He would have lived if the truce...
...clock, the truce deadline, a siren wailed through the Jewish quarters. The drumfire noises of war faded to scattered shots, then died out completely. An unreal quiet gripped Jerusalem. It was the same throughout most of Palestine...
Much of the writing is dated. The gloomy opening scenes of Desire Under the Elms read like a Ring Lardner parody of Russian drama. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge seems a more imaginative creation 20 years after publication; but he also seems as unreal as the specters who haunted the castles of Gothic novelists...
...hours the world lived in strange, unreal excitement, spoke in lavender & top-hat terms of "démarches" and "settlements." It even seemed as though Moscow had toned down its radio attacks on the U.S. "They"-the dread pair of antagonists-were going to get together to talk out their differences, as if only the wrinkle in Molotov's forehead and the puff of George Marshall's lips had prevented complete agreement between the U.S. and Russia all these months. An anonymous Nanking man-in-the-street was more realistic: "Heng hao" (very good), said he. "Now will...
These deep-city innocents pay a lot too much for a piece of unreal estate in Connecticut-a pleasant-looking, rump-sprung old house which they are wild to patch up and are promptly advised to tear down. They get a lot of belated advice from their lawyer friend (Melvyn Douglas), and they go into a huddle with an architect (Reginald Denny) who is willing to design practically anything-at a price. Before their homing instinct comes to roost at last they have been put through the wringer by practically every type of swindler involved in, or parasitic upon...