Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In an effort to discourage any students with intentions of getting out of embarrassing situations at College in preference for a more romantic career in the ambulance service, Professor Merriman baldy asserted, "Go only if you feel an impelling urge to serve at the front. Do your work here first...
...Victor Herbert, his opera stories are now watery wine to a world once intoxicated by the theme of gay, romantic love bursting Victorian bonds. But despite all of this and much more which could be added from the pens of countless critics who have assigned the cliches of sentimental romanticism to deadest limbo, not a year of the new age passes without a half-dozen revivals of the old. And if Sigmund Romberg's "The Student Prince" provides any indication, it is that the modernistic revolt has left a lot of theatre-going Bourbons around...
"Sun Valley Serenade" does have all that and more to boot. Sonja Henie, in addition to her solo winter sports carnival, proves to be no slouch at parlor games and turns in a first rate romantic performance. Playing a Norwegian refugee adopted by Miller's band as a publicity gag...
Tupelo is an ultra-romantic spot on the shores of Lake Waban, otherwise known as Wellesley pond. There the wily Wellesley lassies will in traditional manner seek to entrap the Class of '45 on balmy spring nights.
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 ("Rhenish") in E Flat Major (New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia, eight sides). German Exile Walter makes this romantic symphony as light and clear as Rudesheimer Schlossberg.