Word: sentimentale
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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...
It is a sentimental film and a sentimental occasion. Tracy and Hepburn were appearing before the cameras together for the last time, and they knew it; ailing for years, Tracy died of heart failure less than three weeks after the picture was completed. His final performance was just exactly what...
MY BROTHER STEVIE, by Eleanor Clymer (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $3.50). A sentimental story of two poor New York City children who take a train trip to the country to visit a favorite teacher.
"The girls at home and the boys overseas were equally lonely, equally sentimental," writes Simon. "The time was ripe for the singers, with their more personalized messages. In December 1946, almost a dozen years after Benny Goodman had blown the first signs of life into the big-band bubble, that...
"Like most children," writes Frank Conroy in this precocious autobiography, "I was anti-sentimental and quick to hear false notes."