Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By last week the play was anything but newsworthy: it sounded more like a familiar gramophone record about Spain than a vibrant radio voice. It also did not sound overmuch like what Hemingway had written. In Adapter Glazer's hands, it was less a personal memoir of Spain than...
As uncritical of his distinguished predecessor as the predecessor was of Spain is Historian Claude Gernade Bowers (Jefferson and Hamilton), another writing diplomat, who represented the U. S. in Spain from 1933 to 1939. One of the first public functions Ambassador Bowers attended was a three-day fiesta in Granada...
Of all the business men who have fringed Harvard Square for the last fifty years, only two are alive and only Max Keezer continues to keep his door open to the boulevardiers of Massachusetts Avenue. Freshmen know his name almost as soon as Sever and Hollis. His smile of welcome...
HAMLET certainly did have an uncle. And it is not Claudius (as he is called in that "perverted" form of Hamlet's story which is most familiar to us to whom Mr. Cabell refers. It is a certain Wiglerus who, in spite of his strange and somewhat comic name, turns...
Artist Freeman never stays seated long, keeps popping up to jot down more bits of Manhattery. His drawings and paintings have the same crowded vitality that Cruikshank and Leech got into their illustrations of Dickens' London, the same knack of making ragpickers a touch romantic. Some of his canvases...