Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ China's Ting Ling, a romantic neurotic. Her grandfather was a high official under the Manchus, her father a playboy who spent most of his money before he died. Her widowed mother taught school and, embittered, drifted into the Party. Giving her own reasons for following her mother...
Novelist Maugham had also contributed prefaces to each volume revealing "intimate and startling details of the romantic and domestic side" of each author. The first two of these treasures will be published next week, entitled W. Somerset Maugham Presents Charles Dickens' David Copperfield and W. Somerset Maugham Presents Henry...
Lewis Kokeny, mild-mannered deputy president of the Hungarian branch of the movement, made a keynote speech with a curious iron-curtain slant. Said he: "We modern Esperantists do not concern ourselves any more with the old idea of corresponding in Esperanto with people in faraway places . . . That was an...
The curly-maned old lion could never have dreamed it, but his kind of painting, which put ideas ahead of emotions, was on the verge of obscurity for a century or more. The romantic French masters who followed him, from Courbet and Delacroix on, were apt to consider David more...
Brooke enjoyed his short life too much to bear down often with sustained intensity on any writing, artistic or critical. Poverty and illness and ambition drove his poetic progenitor John Keats; but early success, doting friends and romantic passions distracted Brooke. He was almost at his best in his letters...