Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some pre-Hitler films sought out some tenable pattern for existence. Some escaped into serenely playful romantic comedies. Others advised submission and Christlike love (Dostoevsky was very popular in middle-class Germany). Still others-which were to furnish the Nazis with a theme-"combined passions and precipices," and celebrated the...
¶ In San Francisco, Dr. Margaret Mead, ethnologist of the American Museum of Natural History, told a conference of social workers that romantic love, with its "whole myth-laden aura," is wrecking the institution of marriage.
Author Guthne's mountain men-buffalo hunters, trappers and guides-are seen, smelt and heard with a consistency and solidity of understanding that makes most other writing about them seem perfunctory or fake. All the romantic qualities that a boy could find in these figures -their lonely hardihood, keenness...
Friday night's Cabaret Dance transformed Mem Hall's elephantine West Room into a conglomeration of jammed night-club-like tables, but order was temporarily installed when Bob Ashenhurat '50's "Jubilee Day" show held the Spotlight. Here pre-dance romantic difficulties were put to words and music for an...
Pamela Kellino, actress-wife of Britain's romantic Cinemenace James Mason, arrived at a formula for a happy marriage: "The only possible way to make marriage work is to stay so close together that you couldn't possibly get apart."