Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In 1937 a roly-poly, rubicund Anglican vicar named R. Anderson Jardine felt an urgent spiritual call. In defiance of the Archbishop of Canterbury he married the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield. Later he turned up in Hollywood, earned a living by marrying romantic couples who wanted to...
Painter Poussin was born near Paris in 1594, worked there until in 1624 he scraped up enough money to go to Rome. He lived and painted in Rome till he died 41 years later. Well represented in the Durlacher show are his airy, romantic landscapes, his carefully voluptuous canvases of...
A really good Wilde biography-i.e., candid, sensitive, objective-is Frances Winwar's Oscar Wilde and the Yellow 'Nineties. Readers may find something reminiscent of Wildean paradox in the fact that a woman wrote it. To readers of her previous biographies (Farewell the Banner: Coleridge and the...
The acting version is far more dramatic -the first half, indeed, is often extremely exciting theatre. But the new version is also much more romantic, and bulging with high ethical conflicts. One seems valid: the struggle in Rawlings between the idealism that made him take on a sickening job, and...
Last week the royal couple (Newlyweds Mary Beauvais, 20, dentist's helper, and Airline Clerk Tom Phelps, 22, of St. Louis) moved into one of a row of board huts-not much bigger than bathing houses but thatched over to give them a romantic air-and settled down to...