Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For at least a generation modernistic esthetes and masterminds have been prophesying a speedy decline for the sentimental operas of the late Giacomo Puccini. Sensible critics,*however, have often pointed out that, though they may be bathetic, Puccini's operas are masterpieces of musical stagecraft, shaped by one of...
*Exempted by sentimental Senators: distribution of Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies.
Homer's dogging muse is his blonde sweetheart, Fran, who "is sure I shall become a novelist of the Irving Bacheller type-which is exactly the goal at which I am aiming." When the next best-seller type appears, he aims at it ("I can learn much of style...
Defending his policy of isolation, he observed that the greatest periods of United States prosperity have been when its citizens have busied themselves with their domestic problems rather than being "sentimental liberals who worry about the freedom of the Afghans."
Everybody has wondered what would happen if people could read each other's minds. In The Thought-Reading Machine amiable, yea-saying André Maurois gives them the power, finds people's secret thoughts are not so bad. Professor Dumoulin was lecturing at a U. S. university when...