Word: sentimentale
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Yeomen was no less exciting dramatically than it was musically. Randall Darwell's set is a gallant attempt at reproducing the grim masonry of the Tower of London. Steve Michales' direction was excellent, although at times a questionable rendering of Yeomen the way Gilbert had intended it. The G&S...
FATHERS, by Herbert Gold. A basically sentimental celebration of fatherhood-Jewish fatherhood, in particular-that rises above itself because of the author's high craftsmanship, fine irony and strong sense of the absurd.
Wilder has always insisted that he is not a writer but a teacher. He is both, of course. The Eighth Day, his first novel in 18 years, combines his special gift for evoking what is warmly sentimental in the American character with his favorite notions about the universality of human...
"This is a book I have been writing all my life," the author says. "Like all novels, this one has a basis in fact, and perhaps more of a basis in fact than some. Like the name 'Gold,' which is an imaginary name, this is an imaginary story...
Charles Ives--Yale man, insurance salesman, transcendentalist, composer--surely one of the most unusual figures in the history of music. Danbury Conn. was his musical matrix. In the solid German academic tradition, he was steeped in Handel, Bach, and Beethoven, as well as in the Puritan and Victorian hymns, minstrel...