Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fashions in heroes change like fashions in hats, and the ruthless strong man is fast returning to popular favor. Author Blanco, romantic but unsentimental Latin, has always admired the type. His idealized portrait of an imaginary dictator will not please U. S. readers so much as his Journey of the...
FRIENDS AND ROMANS-Virginia Faulkner-Simon & Schuster ($2). If the recent heat wave had done nothing more than bring this ephemeral bloom to flower, it was worth it. Seldom has a first novel been written with higher good humor or a more disarming wit than Virginia Faulkner's Friends...
Last week some vacationers packed into suitcases the worthy books they had no time to read last winter. But more were content merely to tuck under their arms a book or two of romantic light fiction that would serve to while away a train journey or fill in a rainy...
To Anglo-Saxons Spanish bullfighting sounds like no sport at all. Spaniards agree that it is no sport, shrug their shoulders over the impossibility of explaining its fascination to a foreigner. For parlor aficionados (fans), Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932) is a compendious...
We've always admired those painters who scale the precipitous Lowell House tower. But they don't really mind the job. It's romantic. Or at least there must be some attraction in the work because we caught one cheerful fellow, dangling from a rope some hundred feet above sea...