Word: maudlinity
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There was a time when it did not seem maudlin to write into a public document; "We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." Paul Douglas has given us principles upon which we can rededicate ourselves-if we will...
Last week members of Local 10 piled 2,500 strong into San Francisco's Coliseum Bowl for a third and final try. Harry Bridges, currently appealing a perjury conviction which may cost him five years in prison, stood up to make a maudlin appeal: "The FBI are waiting to pick me up after this meeting,"* he shouted, "and before they do I want to make a statement of policy." But Harry's longshoremen would have none of him. They shouted and booed him, then roared overwhelming approval of a resolution which said: "We go on record without...
...Kostelanetz. He also managed to do some composing of his own, turned up a wartime hit San Fernando Valley. Hi biggest single venture to date ("comparing it to all the other things is like stacking a symphony alongside a pack of pop tunes") is Manhattan Tower, a frequently maudlin, occasionally sprightly four-section tribute to the big city, which he wrote in 1945 after a three-week champagne party in a suite of Manhattan's Ritz Tower Hotel. Recorded by Jenkins himself, it is still one of Decca's big sellers...
...thoughtful, intelligent wife, Celia Johnson displays just enough martyr complex to make her role appealing but not maudlin. Though her rational plans go awry and she cannot maintain a marriage based on mutual need rather than love she is a refreshing and stable antidote to the decaying lovers...
That single all-night show set a pattern that radio is still following. From New York, a lonely girl in the Ritz-Carlton kept phoning him maudlin professions of love. Walter Wirichell was on the phone at 5 a.m., and carried a rave for Godfrey in his column. Just before sunup, Godfrey wished aloud that he had some coffee. About 8,000 Washingtonians got into their cars and drove out with sandwiches and full Thermos bottles...