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If baseball somehow reflects America, as romanticists like to believe, then it also shares in its blemishes.

A global pandemic has reduced the Grand Old Game’s romanticists to cardboard cutouts behind home plate.

For German romanticists in the late 18th century, the forest was an important symbol of unity and purity, the word waldeinsamkeit, forest loneliness, embodying the sense of inner peace to be found in the forest.

For wine romanticists, that means the Bordeaux that Thomas Jefferson enjoyed on his visits to the region in the 1780s were probably not primarily cabernet.

“Why not?” he remembered responding dispassionately, remarking, “You’re talking to an engineer, not a romanticist.”