Word: romanticizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Goldwater shows that Paul Gauguin, who pursued the primitive to Tahiti, was not the first artist to make a touchdown: "artists' voyages after his time lessened rather than increased in extent." Furthermore. Romantic Primitivism. the conscious desire to convey the fundamentals of life, arose among various 19th-Century...
That The Great Waltz succeeds so notably in evoking the flowery nostalgia inherent in Strauss's music may be partly due to the ironic fact that world events have made imperial Vienna something more than the stock romantic setting it was when a similar operetta had its Manhattan stage...
When it was over, U. S. Composer Roy Harris, who had sat it out, sniffed: "I should say the piece was 19th-Century German Romantic." Confused Bostonians, looking everywhere but under the seats for the romanticism, found a will o' the wisp clue in their program notes, where Composer Krenek's own words told them: "At the end of the piece the piano seems to remove all traces of solidity, the orchestra reverts to the indistinct sounds of the high violins which introduced the work . . . leading the music back to the remoteness whence it came...
Back teaching school in an Ohio town across the river, emotional, romantic, enthusiastic Jesse Stuart refused to give up, though friends told him to stay out of Greenup. One of the most prolific writers going, he dislikes teaching school because it cuts his output from 30,000 to 10,000...
Very definitely Rebecca belongs not to the realistic but to the romantic tradition of the novel. As such it is not to be compared with Oedipus Rex (although most readers are likely to find it a good deal harder to lay down than Oedipus), but like Oedipus it is basically...