Word: maudlinity
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...another letter to the editor, Ring Lardner Jr.. one of the "Hollywood Ten." wondered whether the kind of one-man worship so deplorable in Stalin's case might not have influenced the "rather maudlin testaments to William Z. Foster on his recent birthday." In the same sentence, evidently feeling no inconsistency. Lardner described U.S. Communist Boss Foster as "America's outstanding working-class leader...
...Chicago Symphony, Janos Starker played a piece that might reduce many a strong man to sentimentality-Schumann's Cello Concerto. Under the pale lights, Starker's sunken cheeks looked drained of blood as he bent to the romantic work, but he never bowed to its maudlin potentialities. His tone was neither too plump nor too lean, but pure, tense and silken. He sculpted the long, melodic lines precisely, restraining himself where a lesser musician might have whipped up some phony passion, then letting his instrument sing passionately, when passion was called for. Next day Critic Roger Dettmer wrote...
...known outside the laboratory, Playwright Thornton Wilder's crazy, mixed-up parable of the human race is a tale told largely in TV's own terms. Its soap-opera domestic situation, its firm reliance on interpolated newsreels, its constant comic interruptions and its narrow escapes from the maudlin and the mawkish by a hasty retreat into the reality of backstage confusion are all old television tricks. On TV itself last week, they served smoothly to give Wilder's persuasive talk a tart, tongue-in-cheek sense of proportion...
...Quite a maudlin piece on Sinatra-written as though a teenager, about to swoon, were writing her thesis on mush...
...firm Catholicism meet a situation in which they seem useless, is evident throughout the film. Maria Schell, as the Austrian refugee girl with whom Scobie falls in love while his wife is on vacation, manages superbly to make her character sympathetic and pitiful without a touch of the maudlin. And Elizabeth Allen's performance presents Louise Scobie in terms so plausible that it is impossible to condemn her. Without careful performances in there two roles, Howard's job of showing the desperate insolubility of Scobie's problem would have been incredibly difficult. As it is, however, his quiet agony...