Word: sentimentale
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The President, our author continued, described himself as "an idealist, with the heart of a poet." He wrote of his love of wife, family or friends with an un ashamed sentimental fervor that embarrassed some and amused others. Sometimes, the historian wrote, the President substituted a beguiling jargon for a...
Douglas reasons thus: the stern, rigorous theology of the Puritan fathers was eventually weakened by the less demanding beliefs of such sects as Congregationalism and Unitarianism. Women, once full working partners in clearing and planting the New World, were turned by industrialization and commerce into homemakers and clotheshorses. Shunted to...
To support this bold brief, Douglas, who teaches at Columbia University, has rummaged through the cultural bric-a-brac of American Victoriana-ministerial bombast, dreadful 19th century novels, and fatuous, hypocritical ladies' magazines. She has made the proper linkages to British Victorianism and German romantic philosophy. She has analyzed...
Psychologically he and his fellow tenants were "naked and disarmed" when the hospital began its secret mission to evict them, tear down their building and replace it with a 27-space parking lot. As a small boy, Worthy had accompanied his physician father on rounds in the hospitals of Greater...
To express the mood or emotional feelings he wishes, Kushnik paints a rainbow of "styles" into his songs--from the satirically self-mocking "A M-pop-hit-single" style of "Electric Eyes of Love" to a surrealist piano accompaniment of a laughing box, called "Opus 354: Sonata for Piano and...