Word: maudlinity
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...Harvard and the ideals it has taught us. Rather, the war demands that we call up those ideals for a final review, so that they may be clearly before us on the battlefields of this war. Sirs, the departing members of the College do not want to be maudlin about this business, but they do feel an attachment to Harvard and a desire for its continued well-being and succuss as a pioneer in education. This sentiment they would like to express in a quiet, expenseless sort of way by observing at least a fragment of the peacetime Commencement tradition...
...while giving his poetry confidence and verve, unfortunately cancels it out as a remedial criticism of American life. In some of his later poems Shapiro seems to be trying, by writing in an unreticent personal vein, to escape from his sophistication. The results are at best ingenuous, at worst maudlin...
Somerset Maugham can spin a colorful yarn out of those aspects of human relations that usually lurk in literary backgrounds but rarely appear boldly as the central theme of a story. At times a bit maudlin, the English novelist has avoided stereotyped sentimentalities in "The Moon and Sixpence," and Warner's has followed faithfully with a moving cinema rendition of the tale of simmering desires and explosive emotional escapes...
...usual, the issue includes two short stories and a few poems. Just why they are included is not clear. They certainly provide no relief or entertainment, for they are morbid at best and maudlin at worst...
...unvarnished adventure. From beginning to end, from the first bridge blown up to the last emplacement of Nazi guns reduced to a pile of rubble, it moves quickly, excitingly, and (what is the big surprise) uncornily. It never slows up, never wanders from its theme, and never becomes patriotically maudlin, as have so many of the war pictures to date...