Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In spite of its nonsensical, stilted story and some bad dialogue Angel has a sustained romantic mood, a subdued, shimmering elegance of playing and direction that makes it interesting though silly. Typical line: "Please go. Every moment that you're here my home is in danger."
Born in 1798, Delacroix had an adventurous infancy. He was dropped from a ship's side by one careless nurse, nearly burnt up by another, and when he reached the age of reason came close to hanging himself in imitation of an engraving. From his German mother Delacroix may...
Unlike dissatisfied Europe, which produces communists and anarchists in national hotbeds, American dissatisfaction produces protestants in sectional cold-frames. And unlike the run of U. S. protestants, who protest only against any interference with their consumption of daily bread, many U. S. poets protest that that daily bread is so...
Born late enough in this period to give him a running jump into the more stirring times that followed was Tom Moore, a short, bouncing, dandiacal Irish poet, whose life and work expressed the age's contradictions perhaps as well as any man's. Son of a prosperous...
When the Indian is disqualified the day of the big game for having innocently played professional football back in Oklahoma, it gives a chance for the romantic quarterback to vindicate himself with everyone concerned.