Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While every country has its body of the true-to-life-and-how-other-people-do-it kind of romance literature, Italian love magazines called "fumetti," come adorned with countless real life pictures. These picture books show romantic adventure played out in photographic flesh as well as mere words. Written...
"The man who has made his mark is caught up in an eternal process," says Biographer Maurois. "The social machine, so cunningly contrived, passes him from cylinder to cylinder, from roller to roller, from ball to ball, from dinner to dinner, and, with each day that passes, flattens him out...
Stripped of his social functions, his sprigs of parsley, his actresses and courtesans, Hugo flourished in his romantic role of "Great Exile." "I am living the life of a monk," he wrote exultantly from Belgium. "I have a bed which is about a hand's-breadth wide . . ." From his...
Chronic heavy drinking can and does alter facial features; and it produces no Olympic winners, except in bobsledding. But an occasional beer is harmless. If legal restrictions were limited to heavy drinking, popular support might make effective enforcement more possible. If a large segment of bartenders' sales were made legal...
Crane bought the bells at the persuasion of Thomas Whittemore, a romantic figure who had been active in the Russian Relief during World War I. Whittemore was interested in rescuing at least one of the characteristic Russian peals from the anti-religious zeal of the Communist regime.