Word: sentimentale
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On any Beach Boys album, we can expect a certain amount of schlock, and, one again, they don't disappoint us. "Deirdre," which tries to justify its lyrics with the pun "dear, dear, Deirdre," sounds like Gary Lewis and the Playboys' "The joker is Wild" played at half-tempo. Likewise...
On the other hand, criticizing the Beach Boys on the basis of their sentimentality really isn't fair-almost all of their songs are pretty sentimental. What is remarkable about the Beach Boys is not so much their sentiments as the musical backing they provide for them. "Tears in the...
"I don't have any important papers, but I've removed from my office things like old income tax returns, sentimental correspondences with old students and some copies of a book I wrote."
If, as one Faculty member suggested, McGeorge Bundy is the man that rational men will measure other candidates against, Clark is the standard, perhaps, on which to measure their "goodness": a sentimental choice in a time when sentiments may be the only thing left we can trust.
He was partial to sentimental operettas like Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow, and made pilgrimages to the Wagner festival in Bayreuth. He scorned Herman Goring's zest for the hunt: "Today when anybody with a fat belly can safely shoot the animal down from a distance." Though he...