Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Spanish Americans, says Weigel, "are extremely intelligent as a group, quick in their perceptions and brilliant in their conceptions." The Latino also tends to combine the romantic loftiness of Don Quixote with the earthy unscrupulousness of Sancho Panza. He has genius for wholehearted friendship, and this is what U.S...
Heap abuse on Madison Avenue and General Motors, say what you want about the morals and aesthetics of business, certainly. Point out, too, that the gusty days of the Robber Barons and Captains of Industry have passed away with the Golden Age of Comedy, and that the day-to-days...
Courses now seminars, such as Miller's Studies in American Romantic Literature, should be brought down into undergraduate range, and reorganized to accommodate a lecture-sized enrollment. So should courses such as Lynn's Mark Twain and the Southwestern Tradition. And to do this the department simply needs more teachers...
The ballerina and the male dancer lay side by side on the couch while the music of Wagner's Liebestod thundered out of the pit. First one rolled off the couch, then the other. Gropingly, they each raised a hand, managed to clasp them. On that grotesquely romantic note...
The posse also includes the usual comic dog handler, in a movie that needs no comic relief. Yet the basic structure is still sound, despite one of the least likely romantic interludes on the modern screen.