Word: romanticismã
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...unpalatable knight in hopes of getting closer to the beautiful Lady Brute, whom he has loved from afar since the day he first saw her—the day of her marriage to Sir Brute. Meanwhile Heartfree, played by Adam Dannheisser, scoffs at his friend’s romanticism??until he too finds himself in love with one woman and pursued by another—the self-absorbed and incessantly chatty Lady Fancyfull, hailed by all as the most ridiculous gentlewoman in town. In turn, her French attendant, Madamoiselle, flatters her mistress incessantly while having a fling with...
Shapiro’s silly blather reminded me of a history lecture I once suffered through. The professor told the class that the student movement against the Vietnam war was little but a “replay of 19th-century romanticism?? peopled by spoiled white rich kids who just couldn’t understand that there really are villains in the world. Well, perhaps the anti-war protesters in the Vietnam era were mostly drawn from the comfortable middle classes, and perhaps there were many in their ranks who joined the movement just for the drugs...
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