Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The first flight of Project Stratoscope, thinks Dr. Schwarzschild, was so successful that the same method may be used to take pictures of the planets. A larger balloon-borne telescope floating far above atmospheric turbulence might decide once and for all the romantic debate about life on Mars.
Though a devoted Communist, Tito was also a romantic-and a ham-to whom form was important. He saw himself as a fiery revolutionary, 1917 model, waving a Red flag on the barricades. Stalin, fighting for his own life and that of his grey, monolithic regime, wanted no Balkan hothead...
Adagio to Scherzo. Jean Sibelius molded his ideas in the post-romantic Germany of the 1890 While he was studying in Berlin he was exposed to such famed symphonists as Bruckner and Brahms (whom he described as "an unsavory-looking fellow, untidily dressed"), and he went home to Finland imbued...
The happy ending to this tragedy? Graham found his naked Mrs. Fraser, liberated her and was rewarded by a ticket of leave, i.e., conditional pardon, and ?10 for his trouble. Happiest of all, Mrs. Fraser and her rescuer were not misled by the romantic situation into any foolish notions about...
...Classical View. The typical Cozzens hero is devoid of heroics, bent not on expressing himself-like the protoplasmic Lennies, the torturedly egocentric Eugene Gants-but on knowing himself. Contrasting "romanticism" and "classicism," the English critic T. E. Hulme once wrote: "To the one party, man's nature is, like a well, to the other like a bucket. The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical." Cozzens' wise men try never...