Word: sentimentale
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Hals usually preferred to let his subjects stand or sit on an empty stage with only their personalities-a tightness of the lip, a squint of the eyes, a proud thrust of the head-constituting the action. His Married Couple (see color) was one of the exceptions. The two young...
In Mr. Dietz's translation, which the program asserts is the official Metropolitan opera translation, the brother-sister ensemblebecomes "Happy Days"-no longer the intricate abandonment of social decorum for an evening of fun, but a sentimental lyric saved from being maudlin only by the power of the music. The...
For an evening of good drama, one could do worse than the Experimental Theatre production of Chekhov's The Boor and J.M. Barrie's The Twelve Pound Look. Barrie's play, though sentimental--even silly--achieves in its ending what it fails to do throughout. Its O. Henry twist gives...
But since the Examiner was Pop Hearst's first paper, Junior feels a strong sentimental attachment that will not let him yield. In his morning struggle with the Chronicle, the evening Call-Bulletin (the word News will be dropped from the masthead), oddly enough, may prove a useful pawn...
In The Reivers* William Faulkner plays a mellowed Prospero and proves an engaging fellow. Like an old man gossiping on the back stoop, he delights in sentimental recollection, revels in his role as a teller of tall tales, at which only Mark Twain is his equal. Above all, Faulkner carries...