Word: unreality
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...combat are fictional. The people who are supposed to give flesh & blood to Wake Island-a tough major (Brian Donlevy), a tough lieutenant (Macdonald Carey), a tough contractor (Albert Dekker), a tough team of comic privates (Robert Preston & William Bendix)-are sincerely invented and acted, but hopelessly unreal in so stern a context. Not even Brian Donlevy, who does his job as soberly as if it were a military assignment, can quite convince anyone that he is anything but the too-familiar, patriotic young actor, doing his best not to look like...
Into the austere, windy surf scene on the opposite page, into the realistic but unreal city below it, Raymond Breinin (rhymes with winin' & dinin') has put the quality that sets him apart from most of his Midwestern contemporaries: his mystical imagination...
Pearl Harbor split the academic year of 1941-42 into two distinct sections. Before December 7, the war, and everything to do with it seemed unreal and far away, but after the first bombs fell on Hawaii, Harvard, its students and Faculty, devoted themselves completely to the struggle, and anything else became superficial...
...Navy casualty list, published this week, showed that 2,317 Americans had been killed, wounded or missing from April 16 to May 10. To most of the U.S. the curt, dry list of names brought no shock. The war was still far away, bloodless, unreal, fought abroad by unknown...
...People Speak. To such families, the war was neither unreal nor bloodless. To them, Memorial Day had a fresh meaning. In the little towns, where everyone knew the boys off fighting and the homes now broken, the editors of weekly news papers spun the real story of the war. This was no sophisticated writing such as the military experts' speculations, or Government pressagents' idea of morale, or dry with the necessary callousness of communiques. But their writing told what the people were learning, with a mixture of grief and pride and anger...