Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among musicians, cellists are known as incurable sentimentalists. This quality is half-humorously assumed, partly because of the tightlipped, tear-laden whine the instrument so easily develops in its upper register, partly because of the overenthusiastic use of that register by romantic composers. One cellist who does not deserve the...
Last week, with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, Janos Starker played a piece that might reduce many a strong man to sentimentality-Schumann's Cello Concerto. Under the pale lights, Starker's sunken cheeks looked drained of blood as he bent to the romantic work, but he...
For the past eight years, he has lived at Antibes, France, a lean, soldierly man who rises promptly at 6 a.m. for a two-hour walk before breakfast and surprises the Riviera crowd by never setting foot in the local bistros. For the past three years, Kazantzakis has been a...
In Bonn (where there is a treason charge standing against him), Otto John's story of drugged kidnaping and clever fencing with the MVD interrogators was deemed altogether too romantic. The West, having had time to take stock of his defection, had found the loss to Western intelligence less...
In any case, Phillips' first step was to team up with Carl Bresnick, a New York City real-estate man and Alleghany stockholder, who is also an old hand at suing corporations. Young's version is that the two met accidentally: as Phillips walked out of Young'...