Word: sentimentale
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In the Concord Sonata, all the ambivalences and ambiguities work. All through the sonata Ives keeps returning to the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, but they sound with a double edge. Beethoven meant to Ives all that was most progressive, most substantial, most radical--the "last sublime...
The Way it Was-Sports. A look at the famous Rocky Graziano-Sugar Ray Robinson middleweight championship fight in 1952. Graziano finished his career with this fight, going in a 3-1 underdog and the brawling, sentimental favorite, but coming out a bruised and beaten fighter with a 67-10...
Ballad of a Soldier was produced in 1960, well into the Kruschev period, and not surprisingly, it is totally non-ideological. It is a simple, at times overly sentimental, but extremely successful demonstration of the disruptive effect of the war on the lives of individuals, and on the fabric of...
Chukhrai does not hesitate to create sentimental scenes: Shura and Alyosha waving to each other as his train pulls away, Alyosha's mother running breathless and perspiring from her work in the fields to greet him. But somehow, in this context, anything less than sentimentality would be unsatisfactory. War has...
By this admittedly primitive standard, Little House on the Prairie (NBC, Wednesday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) seems the best of a highly domesticated breed. It is true that Star-Producer Michael Landon looks as if he just stepped out of a unisex beauty salon on the Strip rather than 430 episodes...