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...Mush Note. In Springfield, 111., after handing the police chief a bunch of forget-me-nots and noting that he tends to get sentimental when he has had too much to drink, Alfonso Senor admitted that it was his fourth sentimental occasion with in a week, got six months at the Vandalia Penal Farm...
...runaway slave named Jim (tolerably well played by Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore). But while the story goes down the river, the picture heads up the creek. The director and scriptwriter seemed determined to reduce Mark Twain's Huckleberry as rapidly as possible to the sort of fruity mush the customers are accustomed to. Most of the major episodes of Huck's hegira are drastically cut or dropped outright. And to chunk up the hole that is left, there is enough conventional "dingnation and sentimenterin' "-not to mention some moony tunes by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton...
...heart of the matter when he noted that the very suggestion of an alien idea had been enough to terrify far too many Brown students. "Football," said Critic Thompson, "has been removed from sane, sensible dialogue. It has been checkered with clichés, mired in sentimental mush, drowned in tears and flapdoodle ... If my remarks have hurt Brown, that can only prove that football is more sanctified than any of us has estimated. The only way to really help is to bring football back into the dialogue, to subject it to all the resources of the dialogue, including...
Wade C. Thompson, instructor in English, stood before movie cameramen, national pressmen, and a crowd of 700 rambunctious students to support his thesis that "the anti-intellectual game is choked with cliches, sentimental mush, and too much sanctity...
...This Critical Hour." "But the purpose for which I speak principally today is to point out that a lot of mumbo-jumbo and mental mush about rigidity and inflexibility and misunderstanding will never help us as we face this.critical hour...