Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But then the rainmaker appears; and after him, indeed, the deluge. As a symbol-as a transformer of lives and a spokesman for faith rather than mere facts-he seems out of the dead past of playwriting. As a romantic swashbuckler, given to fancy rainmaking and fancier lovemaking, he lacks...
All this is the more remarkable because the very idea of doing a black Carmen is a pretty obvious device for converting color into coin. Furthermore, there is a musical objection to the scheme. Bizet wrote French romantic music that, as many critics feel, is hardly even suitable to its...
THE HUGE SEASON, by Wright Morris (306 pp.; Macmillan; $4.25), takes a set of characters that might have been found in F. Scott Fitzgerald's wastebasket and imagines what became of them in the harsh morning after the tender night. Among the characters: a young, rich Greek god from...
This Property Is Condemned, first of the three works, poses a difficult problem of interpretation which Director Colgate Salsbury fails to solve. Williams probably intended to give this sketch an ethereal quality. Yet the conversation between two young misfits, as they walk along the tracks of a Mississippi railroad, lends...
Coleridge spoke of A Midsummer Night's Dream as "the lyrical dramatized," but its glories persist in being a great deal more lyrical than dramatic. Hence this is A Midsummer Night's Dream treated, as in 19th century days, as a kind of operatic spectacle, and in much...