Word: unreality
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...clichés, puns, misunderstandings, paraphrases of oldtime cinema captions, tall talk and dull talk are jumbled together. But All Good Americans, a naturalistic play on hardboiled lovers, is not improved by being peppered with Perelman jokes, new, old, sometimes funny. The lines and action are sophisticated, superficial, curiously unreal...
...Stalin the bourgeois world is as unreal as Soviet Russia was to Calvin Coolidge. Maxim Litvinov knows the outside world, understands the way capitalists think. Tactfully he dissociates himself from Communism's missionary society, the Third International, and its fight to spread world revolution...
...wrong, for no reader identifies himself with the hero-cad to that degree, nor is the hero, who is as mentally inert as either of these, ever mirrored from life; vile cads and pure heroes do not occur full-blown in life. The characterization strikes one as incomplete and unreal for that very reason. Since the hero, Theodore Bulpington, occupies the centre of the stage to the exclusion of other complete and living characters, the novel contains little that is less shadowy than the main caricature...
...headache is not in every case a part of the migrainous attack. A person reasonably normal in emotional and psychic make-up may have periodic episodes in which he feels depressed, absentminded, confused. Things and ideas seem strange and unreal to him. He may act like an automaton, swear he is living in both the past and present simultaneously, add up two separate columns of figures at the same time. To be called migraine, such attacks must be short (not more than two days), periodic, not associated with unconsciousness...
VALCOUR MEETS MURDER?Rufus King ?Crime Club ($2). Eight hard-boiled characters, some virtuous, remain unreal through storm, fire, double death and transportation of stolen gems about the Canadian border; and Valcour remains Lieutenant Valcour...