Word: sentimentale
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Margaret Mead has been a powerful catalyst in making anthropology relevant to contemporary man-and now, obviously, is no time to quit. "At this moment in history," she says, "we have virtually the whole of man's life spread out before us-people who are living as they may...
Exploiting this murky and suggestive mood of prints, many artists chose bizarre subjects--tigers, vagabonds, and birds of prey--to dance among the shadows of their backgrounds. Since prints are designed to be reproduced and sold the artists tempted the pre-photographic public with the sentimental or the grotesque. In...
Elusive Simplicity. Some of the problem is that Pushkin's reputation for greatness stems in part from his historical significance. Much Russian writing of his age cloaked itself affectedly in secondhand French elegance. In such superb tales as The Queen of Spades and The Captain's Daughter, Pushkin...
Criticism-what there was of it-tended to be muted and a bit oblique. Joseph Alsop viewed the speech as "eloquently phrased, redolent of good intentions, admirably delivered but-to put it very mildly-not enormously informative." Mary McGrory, the Washington Evening Star's sentimental liberal, reproduced a parade...
Died. Irene Castle, 75, ballroom dancer who was the belle of two continents before World War I; of heart disease; in Eureka Springs, Ark. Daughter of a New York physician, Irene married an impoverished English actor, and almost overnight the dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle became the toast...