Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The weekly lectures, which are given by an imposing roster of all the shining lights of the department, are lamentably disappointing. The course has been aptly called a revue; it should be added that the songs and dances of the professorial chorines are in the main dusty and dull. Instead...
Professor Babbitt is a scholar of tremendous erudition; he has read, roughly, everything. Be it Buddha, Coleridge, or Sinclair Lewis's last novel, it is all grist to his mill. The name of the course makes no difference; were it to be "A Study of the Literary Background of 'Alice...
Mr. Belfry was a Cambridge Don who had been creditably through the War but had never seen much life. A pathologically shy bachelor, he finally decided to take a holiday in Italy and do a thing or two while there was yet time. He liked being in Capri out of...
Maurice Sachs in his "Decade of Illusion" is very much a member of the school he describes. He is an individualist and an intellectual; something of a philosopher, a rationalist, while still an incurable romantic. At times he spoils his impression by unrestrained, uncritical enthusiasms; and he is throughout perhaps...
Manhattan to Cuba as her husband's spy. Such a romance could obviously entail comedy of one sort or another. It is presented instead in a sentimental mood which ill befits the confusion between Brent's romantic interest in the heroine and his thoroughly ungallant professional curiosity. What...