Word: sentimentale
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A graduate of Riverdale Country Day school and Brown University. Birnbach said she based her book largely on personal experience. Calling her Harvard visit a "sentimental journey," she described herself as a "bohemian preppy," which her book defines as more free-spirited than the usual, conservative preppy.
When President Reagan denounces Government workers as shirkers, he cannot be thinking of Zhao Wenjin, 75. Zhao began work as a handyman at the U.S. consulate in Xiamen, China, when Calvin Coolidge was his Supreme Employer. In 1945, eight years after consular officials had fled Japanese invaders, an American vice...
His high-stepping, svelte-styled fellow performers are not far behind. With insinuative grace, Judith Jamison uncoils in the title number to lament the bittersweet tempo of the heart at dawn. Gregg Burge and Hinton Battle challenge the speed of light with their agility, and Phyllis Hyman and Terri Klausner...
This sentimental optimism in what Ariès calls "the death of the other" hardened into "the invisible death." The end of life is treated as an obscenity; physicians prevaricate with fatally ill patients; the afflicted die alone, plugged into the engines of Hygeia; emotional and public grieving is thought...
Such caution is not necessarily cynical. It is common to anyone who keeps an eye on the realities of American government, as contrasted with the sentimental and doctrinaire preachings about it. One reality of political America is the country's capacity and willingness to do whatever is deemed practically...