Word: sentimentale
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"Gawd," says Joy, as she walks wearily home through a London slum to her sordid flat and the petty thief she lives with. "If anyone saw me now, they'd say, 'She's had a rough night, poor cow.' " She has had more than that. But...
Unless his name happens to be Sophocles, the best thing a playwright can do with the Oedipus complex is to forget it. Purporting to explain the irreconcilable clash of son with father, the Oedipus complex, dramatically speaking, tends to reduce conflict to impasse. This is both the substance of-and...
Pearson brought intellect and understanding to the problem of national unity, and so Canadians will ascribe his failure to bring about great improvements to his dismal television image, or to his age. But the real source of his failure is the enormous difficulty of the problem itself. It is not...
Sustained Sentiment. The man who is slated to preside over the Penn Central, fittingly enough, is the man who started the merger trend. It was Saunders, as president of the Norfolk & Western, who arranged for the takeover of the Virginian Railway in 1959 and laid the groundwork for the N...
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER. Stanley Kramer's new film sets out bravely to face the problems of the marriage of a Negro man (Sidney Poitier) to a white girl (Katharine Houghton), but retreats into sugary platitudes despite the rallying performances of Spencer Tracy, as the girl's liberal...