Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopper's Summer Evening, a young couple talking in the harsh light of a cottage porch, is inescapably romantic, but Hopper was hurt by one critic's suggestion that it would do for an illustration in "any woman's magazine." Hopper had the painting in the back...
The Eternal Return (Paulve; Discina). The medieval bards sang of Tristan and Iseult as huge, cloudy symbols of high romance; later storytellers (Swinburne, Wagner, Tennyson, E. A. Robinson et al.) further enriched (or corrupted) the tale with new ideas and idioms. Now the French poet-moviemaker, Jean Cocteau, has handsomely...
"Who preaches sermons that are genuine expositions of the text and sense of Scripture, bringing to bear the great Biblical themes of God's judgment and mercy upon men who are dead in their complacency, self-confidence or pride? Your preachers . . . are still advocating justification by good works of...
Body and Soul, distinguished by James Wong Howe's flaying ringside photography, was a boxing picture, close to perfect of its kind. Britain's Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger exported a casual, charming romantic comedy, I Know Where I'm Going. Nightmare Alley had a sardonic toughness...
Parkman was a puritan with a romantic streak, a social snob, a mentally and physically sick man who exalted the strenuous life and cracked under it. The Journals, which cover trips to New England, Canada, Florida, the Northwest and Europe, are as remarkable for what Parkman missed as they are...