Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gould's moody, darkly romantic Quartet moved several critics to high praise; it also proved that Composer Gould is still several giant steps behind Pianist Gould in accomplishments. Glenn Gould was 3½ when he first sat down to play. By 10 he was studying with the Toronto conservatory...
Hats That Stay. The questionnaire turned up other criticisms. Overwhelmingly, the women reported that it was practically impossible to find the basic, simple black dress that "isn't too hot in New York and can be worn morning through evening." They wanted blouses with "plenty of tail" that won...
Casona was born 53 years ago in the Asturias country in northwest Spain, but left home at an early age to attend high school and college in Murcia and Madrid. Imbued with a flair for the romantic and an avowed democrat politically, he was an ardent supporter of the Republican...
Since that time he has lived in Argentina and produced some nine plays, all of which exhibit the optimism, poetry, and drama that have endowed his life with a richness beyond what his Spanish environment could warrant. From Casona's early ventures in poetry we see in all his later...
Sire & Sisu. Saarinen credits his natural competitiveness partly to his Finnish sisu* and the example of his hardworking, hard-playing father. Eliel Saarinen was Finland's No. 1 architect (the Helsinki railroad station and National Museum) and town planner (Helsinki, and Canberra, Australia). He set up headquarters in a...