Word: unrealized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uneasy and unreal era of truce between China's merchants and its Communist government...
...real human beings, who "happen" nowadays just as they always have and always will; 2) that no love affair, however sordid, can escape the terrible, endless implications of love. For some readers, he may have succeeded in demonstrating both; but for many his saint will seem as faraway and unreal as T. S. Eliot's Celia in The Cocktail Party...
...Cecil Beaton showed himself to be a remarkably gifted photographer of women. His talent for the picturesque lie, his mastery of the cosmetic power of light, his ability to observe beautiful women with a severe detachment-almost as fine pieces of furniture-produced photographs that were sometimes as exquisitely unreal as the visions of Botticelli...
...that to hope too hard was humiliating, suspicious but feeling that to be too suspicious was self-defeating. The U.S. had never sued for peace, and it was anxious not even to appear to be suing now. Peace, if it was to be peace, was coming in an almost unreal diplomacy of indirection, in hints and hopes, in negotiations by men intent on proving that they didn't really have to negotiate...
...convulsions. When the American takes a step in international economic affairs, the non-American, who does not understand the peculiar U.S. economic background, suspects him of hypocritically looking for profit or trying to impose the American way of life. Similarly, the U.S. from time to time gets into these unreal "Great Debates" over "internationalism" v. "isolationism," because the American is caught between his own "Americanism" feeling is a of highly passivity and explosive the force acting on the world...