Word: maudlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the greatest danger to working women, however, is the new cult of sensibility, the maudlin literary fashion that American magazines have recently imported from England. The Royal American Magazine has repeatedly warned women of the dangers they court by taxing their brains with too much learning. Similarly, a sentimentalist writing for the Pennsylvania Magazine advises women not to be too active, too witty or too cheerful. Praise is reserved for the young lady whose "gentle bosom burns,/ Like lamps plac'd near sepulchral urns,/ Or like the glowworm in the night,/ It gleams with melancholy light." Although John...
...individualism." The opera invites easy comparisons. There is a tape-erasing scene (David's awakening has been recorded); though the Nixon tapes are not mentioned, the point is obvious. Operatic comparisons are also in order. The Hero is a reverse twist on Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, that maudlin, heavy-handed tale about the impersonation of a dead man in bed. Most of Menotti's music is passable Puccini: melodic, easy to take - and totally beside the point...
Rising from the dinner table, the top Timesman asked rhetorically whether he had yelled at too many people, and added, "I know I was maudlin, but I really meant...
...musing; one of sardonic realism and another of patriotic camp. On one page, he describes Willis Reed pondering "how a rabbit does it," and on the following, he sums up the 1973 championship with the old saw, "Vicariously experiencing the victory can't compare to being Number One." The maudlin cliches of the sports world are not geared toward the cynicism implicit in Bradley's off-beat anecdotes. There is a contradiction between his seasoned insight into professional basketball and the adolescent spirit of his language. With this parrot squawking denials on his shoulder, Bradley's Life...
...momentous questions, of Oedipal relations, of age, of the child's world, of death. We should take a clue from Gide: to be able to read Simenon with interest is to read between the lines, to make a creative extrapolation. By itself, Letter to My Mother is the maudlin nostalgia of an old man; however, with a bit of imagination on the reader's part, the roman policier mentality can be the catalyst to other, more serious reflections...