Word: romanticizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The double standard prevailing in this, as in so many other romantic matters, makes it far less acceptable for an older woman to form an alliance with a younger man. Still, there are rich precedents in that pattern as well. Oedipus and Jocasta, of course, represent a sort of ne...
When it comes to men and girls, though, what December sees in May is fairly obvious, but what does May see in December? Christmas, wags answer; and not even the most romantic would deny that money and marriage are often intertwined. Still, today's unions of old and young...
Others argue that in marriages across the generation gap, there is often so little genuine communication that each partner treats the other as a sort of exotic object. But such psychological distancing may be very valuable. It frequently breeds a courtesy and romantic regard that in a marriage of contemporaries...
Even as a poet's poet, though, Pushkin is still very special and-in translation-frustrating. His verse is elusively simple, unadorned by such easily translatable characteristics as splashy imagery or intellectual abstractions. Its strength lies rather in subtly suggestive tones and rhythms. No less a language snob and...
Such restraints hurt. Pushkin depend edon his writing for a living and, in fact, became Russia's first really pro fessional writer. But restraint could not temper his flamboyant mode of life, which was Byronic - though not in the usual sense. Pushkin's affinity was for the rational...