Word: elegiac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pages down, and it was awful," he recalled. "But the factual parts, where the armies were moving, when the battles were fought, that wasn't bad," He skimmed off the fiction, and the result was Mr. Lincoln's Army, the first of his 13 elegiac, historical summaries that re-create the Civil War in a sweep of colorful detail. Catton also worked as senior editor of the hardbound American Heritage: The Magazine of History...
Lecture--English 209 "Two Approaches to Wordsworth: Elegiac Poetry and Eighteenth Century Psychology," 277 Science Center...
...character of the photographs is to convey sympathy with these trapped lives. Nowhere is it manifested more poignantly than in her pictures of women relaxing in the hospital bath. Such subjects, in other hands, might have piled voyeurism on intrusion. But in "Ward 81" they acquire a sort of elegiac sweetness, as images of bathers tend to do. After seeing the show, it is hard to think about madness and confinement in the same way again...
Made in East Germany, this bleak, elegiac tale suggests that lies like Jacob's may be a necessary, if sometimes fatal condition of life. A young ghetto girl can sleep with her lover only by pretending that the lover's roommate is deaf and dumb-then, after the roommate is dead, by pretending that he is still there. Jacob (movingly played by Czechoslovak Actor Vlastimil Brodsky) has no choice but to indulge the illusions of his adopted niece, who is entranced when he slips around a corner and mimics a radio broadcast, complete with an interview with Winston...
...entirely ugly. For Charles Mee, 38, author (Meeting at Potsdam) and the former editor of Horizon magazine, the decade had a chaotic vitality and charm. His title implies a Watergate history, but the book is something quite different-an odd and lovely exercise that is part autobiographical meditation, part elegiac crank letter to the American Republic, part confession and part essay on democratic politics. "I still fuse my public and private worlds," Mee writes. "All visions of the world are autobiographies...