Word: romanticizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BACH DIED two hundred and nineteen years ago yesterday. During the past sixty years, it has seemed as if his death has been mourned anew-if not consciously, at least through the aweful, though belated, recognition of the importance of his work. Only a few years before the turn of...
Still, these are minor lapses in a major movie. In terms of contemporary mores and methods, Easy Rider has told its story from the far side of the generation gap. For once the aura of evil that clings to drug-and-motorcycle movies is gone. Like other films directed to...
Over the years, however, politics paled. "At first it's fun, because you get the illusion of achieving. But I've spent my life with political people and they never accomplish anything. We ex-Communists have a flavor that is instantaneously recognizable to each other -a sort of...
Despite the excitement of the past weekend one can only fear that the successful flight of Apollo 11 has dealt a final blow to the Romantic spirit. (To say nothing of Greek mythology, which has succumbed to the ascendency of the number.) Gone forever are the days of the Byronic...
Although black artists disdain any ties to previous American literature "the black arts are a thoroughly American phenomenon," Davis said. "The belief that art can remake America is part of the Romantic disposition which characterizes this country," he added.