Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Romantic readers who anticipate a cozy, escapist time-killer are in for a shock: The Mind and Heart of Love is prickly with erudition. But laymen who tackle it will find it a rewarding exercise.
The name of the 49-year-old man in a well-cut blue-grey suit was Fawzi Kawukji. To thousands of Arabs in the Middle East the name carried a ring of romantic derring-do. To hundreds of Arabs in Palestine, as to all of Palestine's Jews, the...
Enough people felt otherwise about this, how ever, for him to be awarded a Rhodes scholarship. He prefaced his stay at Oxford by a year of Knocking around France, and reinforcing thereby his interest in modern European history. The subsequent life at Oxford was a wonderful experience. "I was thrown...
For one thing, fashion reporters were finally permitted to disclose the breathlessly awaited details of the royal trousseaux. Hats were "off the face," for royalty may not hide from onlookers under a lowering brim. For Princess Elizabeth there were pastel evening gowns, "really romantic, with rustling, or softly flowing full...
Report to Saint Peter brings the young Van Loon, heir to all the ages, as far as his twelfth year. At this point he found his boyhood hero in the story of a medieval minnesinger. "I never quite got over the feeling that all women . . . longed to be the heroines...