Word: romanticist
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...exotic music came from that keyboard: scenes of massacre and battle and hell. There were (see color) the funereal chords of his Hamlets, the lyric melancholy of some of his portraits, the emotional rhythms of his still lifes. History has cast Delacroix in the role of the great romanticist pitted against Ingres, France's great classicist. Yet for all his passion, he was a man of intellect who never surrendered to unbridled emotion. "Reason must control all our infirmities," he said...
...Aren't Alone) makes his moral clear-and, finally, unnecessarily explicit. Man, saysPick in effect, is a creature of turmoil who, if he is doomed outside the sheltered valleys, is stifled within them. The view, powerfully expressed in a well-written book, is that of an existentialist, a romanticist who believes that a free man is one who accepts the world as incomprehensible...
Even by Sketch's dustbin standards, this was not much of a story. Shiv, an Indian maharajah's son, is a bush-league playboy-not, say, in Porfirio Rubirosa's class. Jane was an insatiable romanticist who could, if need be, wriggle through a love affair in five minutes. What's more, she had a husband and two-year-old daughter in the West Indies, where she had left them nearly two years...
After more than 300 uneventful round trips between Caracas and New York, Venezuelan Airline Pilot Henry Peter Bush, 42, a bachelor and an uncured romanticist, was bored. He wanted to give up flying some day and write adventure stories. He took his accumulated leave and set off on a round-the-world trip (Europe, the Middle East. India). Last week he turned up in Tokyo with a headline-making story right out of Terry and the Pirates. He had just come back, he said, from flying 350 miles into Red China to bring out the 13-year...
...ejaculations of Hopper are more lively than his paintings. One thought is clear: the continuum of romanticist murmuring and sweet trills of past American art will "glow" through the age of Hopper and those who follow, amply aided by TIME...