Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"The King of the Mountains is locked in jail, and he too dreams of the beloved land," sang Calabrian emigrants in America at the turn of the century when young, handsome, black-mustachioed Giuseppe Mustlino was first imprisoned. Few soldiers of fortune before or since have become so legendary in...
Mars Problem. Most romantic use of "light amplification" is in astronomy. The biggest telescopes do not magnify more than much smaller ones do; their purpose is to gather more light, making dim stars and nebulae bright enough to affect a photographic plate. Much the same result can be accomplished by...
Jim Cronin reported that the Place took on poetic hues in the candlelight, a ceiling of darkness closed in each booth, and voices whispered in a romantic hush. "But we don't plan to make either the candles or the dulcet voices a permanent part of our atmosphere," Cronin said...
Editor's Note: Study is not the only concern of university students. They are young and romantic, and mature enough to think of marriage. The Mita Campus distributed a questionnaire, and the following are ideals of one thousand Keio students: LOVE-MARRIAGE IS FASHIONABLE--Both men and women students believe...
The weakness of Cat Man is the glancing, one-dimensional approach to its characters: perhaps Author Hoagland understands the cats better than the men. But his book is a flashing, at times inspired job of observation. Few who read it will ever have quite the same old romantic about the...