Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A Song Before Supper. Last week The Yellow Rose of Texas was on a gaslit stage back in Civil War days, with drummer girls marching to its stirring beat. Love Is a Many Splendored Thing took place in a many-splendored pastoral scene (with a dismounted Gisele Mackenzie in riding...
The hero of The Spider's House is a dilettante culture vulture named John Stenham. In present-day French Morocco, he resents the growing web of tension, intrigue and violence spun by the French and the Arabs. A neutralist esthete in love with his romantic image of the Arabs...
Mary was far from the average Vassar girl who just wanted to beat Emily to the Post. She set herself apart from both the socially conscious and the "blue-eyed Republican girls" by a romantic Royalism and a devotion to the past. She was a Latinist and knew more about...
Mary graduated into the intellectual Manhattan of the '303 when all roads seemed to lead to Moscow. She marched in May Day parades "for fun." As a "romantic desperado . . . like all truly intellectual women" (her own phrase), Mary McCarthy found Trotsky her meat. Trotsky saved her from Stalin; when...
He was soon not so alone. A redheaded "she-nihilist" with blue spectacles, bobbed hair and romantic ideas threw herself at the feet of the literary master, and tripped him. Apollinaria Suslova was a 22-year-old intellectual spitfire of the New Woman breed. Chasing after her to Western Europe...