Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was a long retreat for a party that fought EDC, denounced conscription, called for "freedom from alliances," played to German desires for reunification at the expense of Western allegiance, and has long regarded the U.S. with sulky suspicion while displaying a romantic affinity for Nehrunian neutralism. Ollenhauer even hopes...
This belief of Alexandre Dumas' Lady of the Camellias was shared by her vast public. For the 19th century, which made tuberculosis both romantic and fashionable, was sure that somehow it was inextricably connected with thwarted love and melancholia. Early 20th century medicine, which sought to explain everything through...
At the moment there is actually an empoverished aristocratic female wasting away in Paris. About half of the few surviving Russian royalists accept her as their princess, the daughter of Czar Nicholas II, but most of the world either ignores her existence or attacks her as an obvious hoax. The...
The Rainmaker. Forecast: sunny comedy, with spells of metaphysical drizzle (Burt Lancaster), occasional electric storms (Katharine Hepburn), romantic sunset (TIME, Dec. 31).
While academic critics have been busy for a generation flensing Melville's whale and rendering it into midnight oil, they have neglected another great writer who made the sea his theater and the deck of a ship his stage. Joseph Conrad?monocled, with salt-rimed beard, at the wheel of...