Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, in that summer month 25 years ago, word went around the beaches, the yachts, the tennis courts, the polo fields that twelve handsome, eligible young men -ten of them from Yale-were coming to Peacock Point, to spend their summer in the most hazardous, heroic, romantic way possible: learning...
"Here's your chance to pack a little of the romantic wallop from 'Down Argentine Way' into your own personality! Remember those dashing Gauchos free-riding o'er the Argentine pampas? DOBBS has copied their broad-brimmed hats. . . ."
No laugh was Skelton's first screen test in 1932. Some bemused underling thought he was a romantic lead, gave him a dramatic test. The result was painful for all concerned. Son of an oldtime circus clown, Skelton had spent half his 19 years trying to make people laugh...
This book is a life of Jules Verne (the first in English) and an analysis of the romantic-scientific viewpoint of the 19th Century. Industrious Jules Verne was a perfect exponent of that viewpoint. His books, tremendously popular, not only stimulated "progress," but furnished a grateful escape from it.
Among nonartists, the reaction to this air-tight ugliness took the form of seaside holidays. Nature became a sort of art gallery. Baedeker became the bible of escape. Verne's own passion for geography was romantic; his love of the sea and the undersea, which his contemporaries shared, is...