Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dag Hammarskjold's sense of mission derives from two opposing forces that seem forever to be driving him on. Hammarskjold, by his own reading of himself, is simultaneously a mystic and a materialist, a romantic and a realist. As a student, he was deeply influenced by the negativist philosophy...
Died. Carlyle Blackwell, 71, wavy-haired romantic idol of the silent screen (The Third Woman, The Beloved Vagabond, She), and leading man for early screen beauties Marion Bavies, Betty Blythe, Blanche Sweet, Alice Joyce et al.; of heart disease; in Miami.
Died. Walter Hampden, 75, stage, screen and television actor, famed as one of the century's topflight interpreters of high romantic drama; of a stroke; in Hollywood. Hampden scored his first major critical success at 26 in England, as a substitute for Sir Henry Irving in Hamlet. His touring...
Readers of Social Scientist David Riesman (TIME. Sept. 27) will be familiar with many of Author Whitman's ideas and characters; her common man is first cousin to Riesman's other-directed individual, her ideal new man a reflection of his inner-directed person. But where earnest Author...
Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp (Julius Baker, Lillian Fuchs, Laura Newell; Decca). This is one of the sonatas for various instruments that occupied Debussy in 1915, just before he learned that he was dying of cancer. It is a beauty. Its outlines are firmer than usual, but the...