Word: sentimentale
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Jimmy Carter's sentimental journey through the tobacco lands of North Carolina the other day was a tonic for him. But despite the cheers, the line he followed took him right down the old route of confusion.
The film's plot has something to do with the efforts of a mean dean (John Vernon) to shut down the frat house, but it is really just an excuse for a series of bits that are far too hot for TV's Saturday Night Live. We watch...
Parsing the Declaration, the author sometimes labors like an exegetical lecturer heading up a steep incline. But the exertion yields refreshing perspectives. Wills argues that Jefferson, far from being the Lockean individualist that scholars and patriotic orators have assumed, believed in sociability, ties of affection, a religion of the heart...
After all sifting of reasons, however, it is difficult for Americans to know what to do emotionally with Richard Nixon. A compassionate and even sentimental people with a kind of friendly compulsion to forgive, they would be disposed to accept Nixon, to leave the past for historians to sort out...
Last week, however, sentimental Texans had a chance to bid on all the gaudy furnishings. "It's part of Texas history," exulted Dallas Housewife Rena Winfield, who came away with two bar stools supported by pairs of shapely legs. A bag of brass tokens, embossed with the motto "Good...