Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The prize-winning novel for which Mr. Mayer gouged himself is Author Goudge's 13th. It lacks the sterner virtues of good literature, but it is tasty as a marshmallow, and practically written in Technicolor. Its setting swings between Britain's romantic Channel Islands and New Zealand, from...
Common to all is passionate patriotism, romantic imagery, uninhibited hero worship. Samples:
Pastoral, which was condensed in Ladies' Home Journal before book publication, is an example of popular magazine fiction at its most romantic, wholesome and reassuring.
Among some of the comments made were the following: Jaffa: "Now you boys are entirely too, too unrealistic. You are guided purely by pseudo-romantic motives. The war can't possibly end until 1948." Perhaps, this, Mr. Jaffa, is purely a "dramatic hypothesis." Don Brown. I'It appears to me...
The one act romantic comedy centers about a group of refugees in a penthouse of a crowded New York district. The attempted suicide of a neighbor brings a free lance photographer on the scene, and his entrance resolves the frustrations of the commercial artist and his wife, Mr. and Mrs...