Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Resentfully shunted to the wings by Dylan's ham-acting genius, her own romantic ego yearned for the center of the stage. Ironically, Dylan's death freed her to indulge in his own kind of self-destructive self-expression. The character she re veals is a kind of...
Though she stands as an insolent, self-confessed sinner at the bar of society's judgment, Caitlin Thomas writes like a saint at the stake. The book may be vulgar and shameless, but it is also a beautifully written, classic portrayal of the romantic temperament. Two of a kind...
Nearly everything that goes on on the stage seems just a bit old and tired. American musical comedy turned into a ritual celebration of romantic love a good many years ago, and it takes much imagination and effort to break out of a mold which has been a success as...
Actually, both the "traitor" label and the "heretic" of the book's title are curiously oldfashioned, almost romantic terms for a highly successful survivor in a political system where the only real treason is to be slower on the draw than the other fellow, the only real heresy to...
Tito is still riding the wind that has swept away other men and regimes. What makes him significant is the meeting of two great forces-Communism and nationalism-that Tito managed instinctively to play off against each other. When he needed strength for his rebellion against Moscow, the man with...