Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The news is that the press is at last beginning to shed its romantic image of itself as the lone public defender pure of heart, pursuing all those other rascals. To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a...
Now, we witness the ugliness of sudden death among the "disconnected." Summer arrives and the devoted twain have split for 16 weeks. But home is where the sweetheart is--phonecalls shorten and letters become scarce. Finally, at the advice of a high school friend, an ex-romantic just hangs up...
In a concert that the HRO is billing as "An Evening With Three Romantics," the sweeping Tchaikovsky B-flat minor concerto figures to be the most accessible and romantic offering. Listeners' ears have changed much since the concerto's premiere in Boston more than a century ago, after which the...
Which is what Thesiger has been saying and doing in a big way for more than half a century. His adventures as an explorer and soldier in the legendary tradition of Sir Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence are recorded in his books Arabian Sands (1959), The Marsh Arabs (1964) and...
People have learned to live with the knowledge that they will die. But the evidence that entire nations, apparently invincible behemoths, may be similarly fated has proved the source of enormous curiosity and awe. The Old Testament exclamation "How are the mighty fallen!" was only one of the earliest recorded...