Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shotover's son-in-law Hector is another of Shaw's Chinese-puzzle characters, whose identity opens up like a box to reveal a new one underneath, leaving him a paradox that is never resolved. One of his personae is that of the romantic hero, with a moustache "like a...
There are some better performances among the seven stars. As Shotover's indescribable daughter Hesione, Diana Wynward is splendid, and Pamela Brown is at least intriguing as her sister Ariadne, Lady Utterword. (They are not the "demon women" Hector describes, but that is Shaw's fault more than theirs.) Ellie...
Shuttling between carnal and romantic love, Serezha discovers a passion more powerful than either: writing. In a scene of almost comic Victorian romanticism, complete with smelling salts and kneeling suitor, Anna Arild rejects Serezha, and the young writer is free to pursue the hard mastery of his craft. Boris Pasternak himself did not attain that mastery until he wrote Doctor Zhivago. Despite its vivid imagery, lyricism and passion for the individual. The Last Summer is an apprentice work...
Of the seven research vessels that tied up at Manhattan piers, the most romantic was the Calypso of France, commanded by handsome Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, famed underwater explorer and author of The Silent World. Displayed on her deck were weird bits of equipment: submarine scooters, deep-sea motion-picture...
Zane Grey published 44 novels while he lived. Horse Heaven Hill is No. 63, and graves the same message as all the rest on the writer's literary headstone: Here lies Zane Grey, a romantic dentist from Zanesville, Ohio, who went West as a young man. There he became...