Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry C. Hatfield, associate professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, will head his department during the absence of Stuart P. Atkins, associate professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Hatfield is an authority on Goe the and the Romantic Movement.
(Boston Symphony, chorus and soloists conducted by Charles Munch; Victor, 3 LPs). The smoldering romantic score, excitingly fanned by Berlioz Specialist Munch.
The French, as usual, made a handful of fine, original films. Jean Cocteau sent over, in Intimate Relations, what amounts to a formal photograph of an Oedipus complex: a devilish picture, devilishly well made. By contrast there was a flash of the old gaite parisienne in Beauties of the Night...
"For a man of genius, in the 19th century," wrote Stendhal, "there is no alternative: he is either a fool or a monster." The great French novelist made this remark after meeting the one great romantic genius of Europe whose monstrous capacities were never in doubt: George Gordon, Lord Byron...
By taking his own amoral unconscious as a point of departure for half-romantic, half-eclectic labors Klee followed a great German tradition which began with Goethe. Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, mystic Rudolph Steiner and Psychologists Freud and Jung all worked the same way.