Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bessie Berger rules the roost through a combination of intimidation and expertly applied guilt. "Someday you'll remember how you sucked away a mother's life!" she cries at her frustrated and repressed son, Ralph, still at home at 22 and still stuck working in rich Uncle Morty's garment...
Like World War II, the civil rights struggle of those years has acquired an aura of almost romantic purity. The goals were clear-cut and indisputable, the heroes and villains easy to discern, the achievements tangible and lasting. As the documentary points out, Selma was not just a culmination but...
Several members of our staff have devised criteria for judging how nervous they ought to be. Among them are Washington Correspondent Patricia Delaney and Jerry Hannifin, who both contributed to the cover. "My first rule for comfort and safety is to fly when the smallest number of people do," says...
Journalist Phillip Knightley prefers his legends lightly tarnished. An earlier book, The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker, removed the romantic luster from combat journalism. The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century is a pickling look...
A WIDER WORLD: PORTRAITS IN AN ADOLESCENCE by Kate Simon. A celebrated travel writer journeys back to her adolescence and a romantic coming of age in 1930s New York.