Word: sentimentale
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Moneymen looked forward to a rosy future. In the Radio Act of 1927, Congress merely demanded that the United States would have ultimate control over all channels, and that licenses would be granted according to the standard of "public interest, convenience, or necessity." There would be no censorship, and no...
Ironic Counterpoint. Clearly nothing less than that was Leonard Bernstein's high intention. And with Mass-subtitled "a theater piece for singers, players and dancers"-he rose to an auspicious occasion and splendid circumstances: a new national opera house, an audience ready to assume that anything that works at...
Not just "righteous anger" but anger of any kind has also become the accepted proof of moral conviction. It is the way we act out certainty when we do not really feel it. As other emotions become less sure, less confident, anger amalgamates with them. Even love, itself, can become...
The extremely competent Gerald Green is anything but cautious in Faking It, or The Wrong Hungarian, a romp paprikash that spoofs the big league literary life with endless verve and infectious silliness. Its hero-narrator, Ben Bloodworth, author of sentimental Jewish novels not unlike the high-grade schmalz Green himself...
Boudreau turns positively sentimental when he talks about the beauty of the land. "What a wonderful world we would have if we could see beauty all the time." Sentimental or not, he personally ensures that every community he visits cleans up its riverfront. In that, he may or may not...