sentences:  His publishing activity at times adapted itself to the exterior requirements of Romanian Socialist Realism and the communist ideology, such as in a 1957 article for "Teatru", where he reviewed Papadat-Bengescu's play "Batrînul" ("The Old Man") exclusively as a progressive social critique of "bourgeois" society.Beginning 1958, the clash between Negoiţescu and the Socialist Realist cultural mainstream reached new proportions