Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For Beyle-Stendhal, that kind of playacting was how men of character faced the facts of life. It is a key to his,thought. He hated hypocrisy, and so did his principal literary heroes, Julien Sorel. the ambitious provincial, Lucien Leuwen, the morose bourgeois, Fabrizio del Dongo, the romantic idealist...
The whole thing is decorously romantic -for it is always infinitely seemlier for the Lunts to live in sin together than in the utmost respectability apart. Throughout the evening, they offer slightly grander and more empedestaled versions of their time-honored selves; and by now, indeed, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred...
The effect of this spirit became most apparent in a reading of Bruckner's Symphony No. 4. Murmurings of renewed interest in this contemporary of Brahms have come from several quarters in the past year; whether this will develop into a full-scale revival remains to be seen. Evaluations of...
...great wave of romanticism in the 19th and early 20th centuries, some painters became so absorbed in expression that they lost sight of the limitations of their materials. Ralph Albert Blakelock, the American romantic landscapist (1847-1919), delighted in the rich gloss of bitumen, a poor-drying, brown pigment, which he used so excessively that the paint ultimately slipped on the canvas (e.g., in one of his landscapes owned by the Brooklyn Museum, paint ran down and over the frame). Edgar Degas, the French impressionist, striving for certain effects, sometimes reduced his paint to what he called essence by thinning...
Author Ray Brock (Blood, Oil and Sand), who spent five years as war correspondent in Ankara and Istanbul, has written-or overwritten- the first fulldress biography of this tremendous figure since his death. But the book is too crammed with imagined detail to gratify either history or Hollywood. When Author...