Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Horns of Orthodoxy. Like many men whose creeds and professions strike others as romantic and even fantastic, Robert Graves is in most ways a down-to-earth type of man. Son of an Irish songwriter he was born at Wimbledon (a London suburb) in 1895, describes himself as "a true...
The book which added "It" to the vocabulary of the '20s enthralled readers on two continents and enthroned Elinor Glyn as the sultriest literary siren of the pre-Kinsey age. Even more famous, of course, was Three Weeks, a swoonmaking elixir that Elinor uncorked in 1907. Three Weeks, written...
For the honeymoon at Brighton in 1892, Clayton hired the public baths for two days so that his "Lorelei" could "swim up and down alone, naked, her long red hair, which when uncoiled reached her knees, trailing in the water behind her." But in a short two years all the...
Summertime. Katharine Hepburn finds love and gentle heartbreak in romantic Venice; with Rossano Brazzi (TIME, June 27).
The tragicomedy of Katharine the Shrewd and Kate the Romantic is played out against the overpowering Technicolor backdrop of Venice. At first. Katharine is all businesslike competence: she industriously snaps photos, craftily measures out tips, keeps her basilisk eye fixed warily on the untrustworthy Italians. But then the Venetian magic...