Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every character is a type and an individual, and every one is well-acted. There is Jaggers, the keen, comfortable and surprisingly soft-hearted lawyer; Pip as a boy, played with magnificent restraint, obedient, kind-hearted, and romantic; Miss Havisham, the grotesque bride of another day, who dies horribly in...
Walter Hampden, romantic Shakespeare-&-Cyrano stage favorite of the '20s & '30s, decided it was time to retire, at 67. From California, stately, large-gestured Actor Hampden made a little curtain speech damning the modern fashion of "underplaying" a role, darkly warned that "this movement can result only in...
Fame at 26. Stieglitz himself was just as flamboyant and talkative as his art was quiet. His father, a Manhattan wool merchant, had sent him to study engineering in Berlin, but he liked studying photography better. He came home famous at 26, in a few years had won 150 prizes...
All the early marks were of a kind to turn the mind of a boy to romantic poetry -the rare sound of a horse's hoofs clopping past his father's lonely farm at night, the screaming, exotic peacocks at the neighboring manor house, the 1,200-year...
Today Author Read, like many of his more thoughtful contemporaries, is a strange but balanced composite-man-an admirer of both Chinese philosophy and surrealism, an atheist with a yen for mystical writing, an advanced thinker who sees his old-fashioned childhood as "an age of unearthly bliss," a romantic...