Word: sentimentale
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Broadway's search for a new hit musical has sent it lurching mostly into the past. Of this season's first ten efforts, two derived from old movies, two reworked old novels, four rehashed old stage or cabaret shows, and six relied entirely on recycled songs. Last week the main...
When thousands of sentimental alums arrive in Cambridge this September for the fireworks celebration, this slim volume--packed with a collection of pictures from the Harvard Archives--will undoubtedly sell out at local bookstores. Indeed, the book jacket predicts that Glimpses "will quickly take an honored place on the shelves...
Classics are intimidating. Directors often hesitate to stage them unless there is a way to reinvent the texts as contemporary, or at least to impose some setting and style not obviously intended by the author. Every production needs a point of view, to be sure; no play mounts itself. Yet...
This doctrine too makes strategic sense because democracies are the most reliable allies of the West. And likely to remain so. Despots like Marcos are the best recruiters for Communist insurgencies. And it makes ideological sense because, however sentimental it may appear to self-styled realists, Americans care about democracy...
Simultaneously, but independently, they invent the notion of stealing the turtles and setting them free in the ocean. It requires only the intercession of a third party, the creatures' keeper, to bring them together. Thereafter, Turtle Diary casts its spell mainly through its refusals. The heist proceeds without hitch or...