Word: sentimentale
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To this anthology Playwright Lillian Hellman, who shared and sheltered many of Hammett's years, has contributed an introduction that pays sentimental homage to his talent. She has also included the fragment of a serious novel, undertaken late in Hammett's life and never published before. There is...
American hero worship is not necessarily nationalistic. Most Americans acknowledge Churchill as one of their greatest heroes, not only because he forged blood, toil, tears and sweat into victory, but because he seemed to embody, like a noble caricature, all the legendary qualities of the English. Not that pugnacity is...
While doctors themselves are ready to admit that they can make mistakes, they generally react to criticism by pointing out that their patients 1) are getting just about the best medical care anywhere, and 2) are foolishly sentimental about the "old days." The U.S. will spend an estimated $44 billion...
BILL EVANS, who usually stresses simplicity, has surrounded himself with strings for some improvisations on Bach, Chopin, Scriabin and Granados (Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra; Verve). It is best, and easy, to forget that Bach had anything to do with the gentle, romantic schmalz called Valse, but this and...
NESA's people are a sentimental lot anyway: they are fond of saying that the most magnificent electric sign in the U.S.A. stands in New York harbor, holds a torch of 19 lamps that create 13,000 watts of illumination. They had no hand in the Statue of Liberty...