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Word: romanticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Bakeless adds to this small list a careful, 404-page biography of Marlowe that pulls together a mass of recently discovered Marlowe material, explodes a few hoary Marlowe legends, but leaves the poet as mysterious and romantic as ever. Making a studious attempt to avoid scholarly language, Mr. Bakeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marlowe Murder | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

His august contemporary, Goethe, studying with Olympian detachment Heine's twisted mixture of harshness and tenderness, irony and romantic feeling, concluded that "Heine has every gift- except love." Psychoanalyst Freud more justly attributes Heine's acerbities to a defense mechanism, functioning with doubled power because he was not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradoxical Poet | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

History and adventure have never been the same since Howard Pyle put his hand to them. Born in 1853 of old Delaware stock, he heard from his great-grandmother eyewitness tales of the rout of the Continental Army at Brandywine. When he grew up, Howard Pyle found one of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pyles & Wyeths | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

In his earlier work Morley Callaghan gave promise of being a sharply sensitive realist. Perhaps it is the haze of his native Toronto, perhaps it is only the gentling-down that many a prancing Pegasus goes through as it is broken to the book trade, but he seems now to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Sinner | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

"Tovarich" is a delicious mixture of first-rate humor and first-rate drama. The situation of the old Russian aristocracy reduced to romantic humility is saved from triteness by the simple addition of four billion francs, entrusted by the old tsar to the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna and her consort...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/12/1937 | See Source »

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