Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Champagne Complex (by Leslie Stevens) concerns a young girl (Polly Bergen) who, after becoming engaged to a prim young tycoon (John Dall), constantly gets high on champagne and then begins peeling off her clothes. Her worried beau calls in his psychoanalyst bachelor uncle (Donald Cook). Treatments reveal that the girl...
After a few stray kiss-and-cuddle sessions with boys her own age, she meets 32-year-old Ned Skelton ("He's a man's man-brrr! Poona and all that"). Ned is brutal; she takes it for masculinity. He hates her friends; she takes that for judgment...
AN IMPOSSIBLE MARRIAGE, by Pamela Hansford Johnson (344 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; ($3.75) is as feminine as a tearoom at high noon. The yatter is about 1) love, 2) men, 3) women, and 4) the fixes 2 and 3 get themselves into over 1. Christine Jackson, the first-person British heroine...
In The Mint, the brutalities of noncoms, the indifference of officers, the rude comradeship and intellectual sterility of barracks life are set down with hard fidelity. But Lawrence, a romantic misfit, was overcome with tiresome self-pity. He tried to understand what barracks and discipline do to men's...
The child was obviously father to the madman. Hitler had a formidable capacity for divorcing himself from reality. As a youngster, he kept turning out sketches for grand new cities, planned to tear down half of Vienna and, incidentally, to convert its citizens from wine to a soft drink (a...