Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ROMANTIC REBEL, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GEORGE SAND-Felizia Seyd-Viking ($3).
Last week Willie Seabrook, 54, announced: "I have outgrown . . . the attitude of willing and romantic wonder which characterized some of my earlier books." Between the covers of Witchcraft he has swept the years' litter of a disordered desk: a theory, anecdotes, old magazine articles, scraps from history, leftover items...
Thus having spoken, De Rougemont flogs the daylights out of contemporary conceptions of marriage, of happiness, of romantic love. In a last chapter whose eloquence becomes all but desperate, he expounds his personal solution : a marriage in which fidelity is observed neither for love, money nor hope of inner reward...
Today U. S. military history has again come full cycle. Against the threat of the most powerful war machine in the world a small professional army (214,927 in 1939) is the nucleus under a Protective Mobilization Plan (P. M. P.) for development of a force of 1,200,000...
On fresh-found Trinidad he sees his first Indians-as touching a set of noble savages as any romantic could wish; and poking along the Orinoco Delta he suspects, by the size of the river, the vast land that bears it. But Columbus is too sure he has found the...