Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By the time he quit regular criticism for playwrighting, in 1894, Shaw had learned to "distinguish between what every [artist] can do and what only a very few can do." He learned that "a criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading . . . When my critical mood is at its...
But the basic dilemma remains unresolved, and in this first novel. Briton Isabel Quigly maintains it for so long that the plot caves in on her characters. With Neddy's return only days away, Celia is belatedly asking her lover: "What do people do, Arcangelo, in a situation like...
The O'Neill play, The Straw, a youthful (1918), three-act romantic tragedy, was presented on NBC's Kraft Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., E.D.T.). It would have been difficult to pick an O'Neill drama that had a better chance of not coming off. It is the...
The heroine of In a Farther Country is a New York-exiled New Mexican named Marietta McGee-Chavéz. She is Scotch-Irish-Spanish, dreams interminably about the Old World but lives on gloomy West 23rd Street with a shopkeeper named MacDougal. Author Goyen's point is that...
Why have the arts taken such a dismal turn? Graves has no doubt of the answer: vainglorious man is paying the penalty for having scorned the Goddess of All Things. All poetry worthy of the name, he believes, is in essence a variation on "the single grand theme"-man'...