Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Before Erich W. Segal ’58 penned the romantic novel “Love Story”—the iconic tale of a Harvard man and Radcliffe woman who fall for each other—he wrote notes for his roommates to express his creativity.
“I don’t remember a single discussion about anything you could call ‘feminism’,” Lyon said. “It wasn’t part of our thinking...We were all caught up in our romantic life and...
Williams, the philosophy professor, said, “The move was a gesture in favor of religion only in the sense that polygamy is a gesture in favor of romantic love.”
Richard Lacayo's on-target homage to the late Robert Rauschenberg mentions the artist's old friendship with John Cage and his romantic relationship with Jasper Johns but not his vital love/hate/play relationships with Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock [May 26]. Leaving out that dynamic part of his life...
And the museum itself? It's entertaining and briskly informative, filled with flat-screen TVs showing period footage and glass cases that hold things like old Jefferson Airplane album covers. I enjoyed it well enough. But I was never able to shake the feeling that the place that really preserves...