Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compared to the neat way American record companies have produced Mozart symphonies and Beethoven quartets in a series of performances by the recognized authorities in those fields, the treatment of Romantic piano music has been little short of chaotic. In this extraordinarily rich and varied field, there has been no...
Tower Duty. Eventually, Sir Osbert persuaded his father to let him give up horsemanship; he entered the Grenadier Guards. Great Morning is dedicated to one of Sir Osbert's friends and contemporaries in the Guards, then "a charming and elegant young man," now Field Marshal Viscount Alexander of Tunis...
Despite a title of the sort which usually forecasts another romantic comedy, this re-release tells admirably of Lord Nelson's simultaneous battles against various enemy navies and sundry social conventions. A little doctoring of the history books provided Alexander Korda with a vigorous tale about the intrigue between Nelson...
The Disaster of Lawrence. A fellow critic has called Pritchett "the most humane of critics . . . not looking for perfection but for the essential life in a book." The "essential life," for Pritchett, is usually blunt and British. With such novelists as Lawrence, Wells and Conrad he is less humane. Wells...
Fiftyish Gaus looks out on the panorama of men living with one another through deep brown eyes backed by a mind that is a compound of the soft-boiled romantic and the methodical social scientist. One moment his fancy turns to roaming Chicago's like front and standing back to...